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The collection of 620 marble and alabaster statues and sarcophagi dating to the Roman Empire period [2] has been described as the "most important private museum of sculpture in the world" by Italian art critic Federico Zeri and, according to The Daily Telegraph, has been "said to rival [the ancient sculptures] of the Vatican."
In 1816, 269 statues from the collection assembled by the 17th-century art collector and aristocrat Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564–1637), were transferred to Giovannia Torlonia as collateral on a loan. After 1825, following Prince Vincenzo Giustiniani's failure to uphold the terms of his agreement, the Torlonias entered into a long legal dispute ...
The sculpture was known in the Giustiniani collection in Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, from the early 1630s, the date of a drawing made for the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo [2] and was illustrated in the engraved catalogue of the Galleria Giustiniani, produced under the direction of Joachim von Sandrart in two deluxe volumes, 1635–36 and 1638 [3] In its first appearance in a Giustiniani ...
Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...
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Today the archaeological site includes a museum [2] exhibiting exquisite marble friezes and sculptures that once adorned the villa. Most of the archaeological finds from previous centuries are in the Vatican Pio Clementino and several European museums (Paris, Munich, Dresden, etc.), and many are in the Torlonia private collection.
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
The Patrician Torlonia bust thought to be of Cato the Elder. Bust No. 535 of the Torlonia Collection, also called the Patrician Torlonia, is a marble bust, [1] sometimes said to portray Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius, though also noted as being of "an unknown Roman politician". [2]