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Referred to as a "collection of collections" by the archaeologist Salvatore Settis, [3] much of the Torlonia Collection consists of older collections acquired either whole or in part by Prince Giovanni (1754–1829) and his son Prince Alessandro (1800–1886). Acquisitions of individual works and groups of classical art were also made on the ...
Alessandro Torlonia, heir to Giovanni, opened the collection to visitors in their family palace on Via della Lungara, close to the Tiber River, in 1893. In the 1960s, the museum was dismantled and the 77-room palace was illegally converted into a 93-unit apartment building. [3] The collection was put into storage and was not publicly displayed.
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Alessandro Torlonia was a great collector of Greek and Roman antiquities, purchasing or excavating quantities of sculpture to add to the Torlonia Collection. [4] [5] In 1866, Prince Alessandro purchased the Villa Albani, which contained many outstanding Graeco-Roman artifacts assembled by the late Cardinal Alessandro Albani, a nephew of Pope Clement XI.
The Albani Torlonia Altarpiece is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino, executed in 1491 and housed in the Torlonia Collection, Rome. It was commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future pope Julius II .
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]
King was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1950.In his early twenties, he apprenticed with a stained glass artist. In 1975, he received a Louis C. Tiffany Fellowship to travel to England and study with master stained glass artist, Patrick Reyntiens at the Burleighfield House Trust in Buckinghamshire.
Other exhibits come from other Torlonia properties and include pieces of the villa's furniture that managed to survive the years of neglect. Other exhibits include three plaster reliefs by Antonio Canova , a woman's head in the style of Michelangelo , several pieces of furniture, and a marble pediment taken from a tomb on the Appian Way .