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 A WOUNDED NIOBID Roman marble sculpture after a Greek original.In Greek mythology; the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe; slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe; born of the royal house of Phrygia; had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto; Apollo's and Artemis' mother.