Roman CapitalsCapitelli romani

Roman Capitals are a compact collection in Pisa that preserve carved column heads and related fragments from the Roman city and its long afterlife. Seen up close, acanthus leaves, volutes, and crisp drill-work show how the classical orders balanced engineering with ornament, and how motifs travelled across the Mediterranean. In a town repeatedly rebuilt with reused spolia, these stones matter less as isolated sculpture than as evidence of continuity—ancient form surviving to shape what later Pisa chose to remember and revive.