THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS (Musei Capitolini) IN ROME; ITALY. The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471; when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome. The collections are closely linked to the city of Rome; and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.STATUE OF DEMETER (Left) Goddess of the harvest and agriculturePentelic marble This huge image of the goddess worshipped at Eleusis is a copy after a Greek original of the fifth century BC. It probably decorated a devotional site inside the gardens.鈥?STATUE OF EROS OR THANATOSParian marble Antonine copy after a fourth-century original.