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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.
The most significant pieces are from the Torlonia Collection, relating to the drainers and princes of Lake Fucino, such as an ivory lion head and a large bas-relief, originally part of a larger single block that depicted three-dimensionally the city of Marruvium (the capital of the Marsi) near San Benedetto dei Marsi. This sculptural block ...
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 .
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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 .
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 Villa Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani.It was built between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni in a project heavily influenced by others – such as Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities, curated by ...