Chariot Race Fresco in Capitoline Museums
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Chariot Race Fresco in Capitoline MuseumsMichele Alberti and Jacopo Rocchetti

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This late 16th-century fresco by Michele Alberti and Jacopo Rocchetti depicts a chariot race, part of a decorative program celebrating ancient Rome’s glory. Commissioned during or shortly after Pope Sixtus V’s papacy, it aligns Roman civic government with its imperial past, embodying ideals of competition, discipline, and spectacle central to Roman identity.