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Museo Torlonia. The eternal emotion of shape

The Greek-Roman sculptural collection of the Torlonia Museum is enveloped by a legendary aura. It was essentially completed in the 19th century when Alessandro Torlonia decided to create a grandiose family museum that remained private. Not only does the collection have an extraordinary breadth and high quality of the works, often from other illustrious collections (from Giustiniani to Studio Cavaceppi) and which have become as famous as Hestia, or from excavations, but also it has not been visible to the public for decades.
Ninety-two works of exceptional beauty take us on a journey back in time through the vicissitudes of the various collection nuclei that have joined the Torlonia collection, composed of 620 pieces from which statues, sarcophagi, busts, reliefs and decorative elements have been selected.
The exhibition I Marmi Torlonia. Collezionare capolavori, will be open to the public until June 29th 2021 in the exhibition space of the Musei Capitolini at Villa Cafferelli – restored to its splendour by the Capitoline Superintendence. It is curated by Salvatore Settis and Carlo Gasparri, with the installation by David Chipperfield Architects Milano, in collaboration with the Torlonia Foundation, which restored the selected marbles with the contribution of Bulgari. The exhibition is the result of an agreement between the MiBACT and the Torlonia Foundation; and specifically, for the Ministry, the Directorate General for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape with the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma.
The Torlonia Museum is a collection of collections or a game of Chinese boxes, in which a collection contained pieces from even older collections.
An unrepeatable opportunity to see a selection of the most important private collection of sculptures of the classical age, but also a collecting obsession for the antique that has united several generations convinced that the emotion of classicism is an eternal one.