œr j: ;v¿1' ' ' " ' "v' ' .' * 'V* A sketch of the Capitoline Hill by Marten van Heemskerck, done in 1536, shows the original Palazzo dei Conservatori in which Sixtus IV installed his museum. The present building dates from 1564-68. The 500th birthday of a museum of art 96 A RT AND MUSEUMS - they seem natural partners. Yet they joined together not so -^very long ago, as human history goes. Art reaches as far back as the Old Stone Age, but it was no more than five hundred years ago last December that the first museum of art in the full sense of the term came into being.