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  2. Torlonia Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Torlonia Collection (Italian: Collezione Torlonia) is a private art collection of 620 Ancient Greek and Roman art works assembled by the noble Torlonia family of Rome, Italy. It has been called "the greatest private collection of ancient Roman antiquity" by archaeologist Darius Arya.

  3. Art collection in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Roman art collectors could satiate their needs by contracting artists, often Greek artists, [39] for commissions. [40] Aulus Gabinius, a Roman consul in 58, employed a Greek painter named Antiochus. [40] Livy, a 1st-century BCE Roman historian, stated that the Roman passion for collecting Greek artwork originated from the capture of Syracuse in ...

  4. Phoenix Ancient Art - Wikipedia

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    Phoenix Ancient Art, located in Geneva and New York City, is a second-generation antiquities dealer specializing in Greek and Roman ancient art. [1] Its works of art have been purchased by arts and antiquities private collectors as well as museums such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Museum in Paris.

  5. Antiquities trade - Wikipedia

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    The antiquities trade is the exchange of antiquities and archaeological artifacts from around the world. This trade may be illicit or completely legal. The legal antiquities trade abides by national regulations, allowing for extraction of artifacts for scientific study whilst maintaining archaeological and anthropological context.

  6. List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy 130,000 objects [1] State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia 106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 ...

  7. Highway work reveals ‘luxurious’ Roman artifacts. See the nearly 2,000-year-old finds. Moira Ritter. March 12, 2024 at 2:27 PM.

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