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Born from the love for ancient art of the princes of the family, heirs to the nobility practices of the Rome of the Popes, the Torlonia collection intended, especially with the opening of the Museo Torlonia in the 1870s, to compete with the great public museums of the Vatican, the Capitol, the Louvre.
This collection, famous in Italy and little known in France, offers an aesthetic and ar- chaeological dive into the discovery of the exceptional works of the Torlonia collection by bringing it into dialogue with the collections of the Louvre.
Portraits, funerary sculptures, copies of famous Greek originals, works with a retros- pective style nourished by Greek classicism or archaism, figures from the Thiasis and allegories reveal a repertoire of images and forms which are the strength of Roman art.
Made of pieces from the very soil of the city of Rome or its immediate surroundings, at the center of power and artistic production in the Roman West, the collection is made up of sculptures of scholarly art, with high quality of execution.
Rome’s last princely collection and a museum looking to the future are embodied in an exceptional piece, already very renowned in the 17th century: the Caprone restored by Bernini.
It was Alessandro Torlonia who decided to create a museum to show these ancient wonders.
These marble beauties have crossed the centuries with elegance and, in their silence, have held the secrets of the world for generations, yet they are all animated by this piece of soul of their creators and the passion that led them to find each other. thus gathered...
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1st century AD Torlonia Collection, Archaeological excavations of Arci in Sabina ©Fondazione Torlonia