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World – Who knows how many new faces, even abroad, the eyes of the goat Giustiniani, or those of the old man from Ootricoli will continue to lay with his moving wrinkles, and then the gaze of the girl of Vulci, ready to show off his smile in the Kimbell Art Museum Pianpworth, in Texas, in Texas, in Texas, Signed, in Texas, in Texas, in Texas, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, in Texas,, Texas, Renzoworth.
After the powerful set -Up conceived by David Chipperfield Architects Milan for the exhibition organized by the Capitolinemusea in October 2020, a selection of fifty masterpieces that were rarely exhibited from the main private collection of Roman sculpture in the world, with its 622 works, after Paris and Chicago.
From September 14 to January 26, the Kimbell Art Museum presents the exhibition Myth and Marble: old Roman sculptures from the Torlonia collection“The first old Roman sculpture exhibition in the fifty years of the history of Kimbell”, as the director Eric Lee explains.

Caprone statue in Rest, Greek marble, 132 x 60 cm, Torlonia Collection, inv. 441 | © Foundationorlonia | Photo: Lorenzo de Masi

Collected from 1875 by Prince Alessandro Torlonia in the homonymous museum or via della Lungara, in Rome, which Remained open Until the 1940s, the “Collection of Collections” was visible, at the time, only to very few privileged, theTcy, in pointcy Bianchi Bandinelli, General Manager of Antiquities and Capitoline Arts, To Visit IT would be forced to hide itself.
Now, this extraordinary collection, formed by acquisitions from important collections of Roman patrician families and excavations that are carried out in family goods throughout Italy, brings all the magic of the museum made by Prince Torlonia to the States to organize and display the imposing collection of old family men.
Organized in six sections, the route three shows not to be dissolved icons, including the portrait of a young woman from the mid -century BC, who stands out, who offers a unique representation of the portraits of the Roman women of the early Augustus time.
De godheden van de Romeinse wereld vinden hun weg tussen de Estia Giustiniani, een van de belangrijkste werken in de collectie, en een van de weinige Romeinse versies van de “ernstige” klassieke stijl die nog steeds bestaat, terwijl de keizers van de tweede eeuw AD en hun imperiale families, het publiek zal herkennen Trajan, Adriano, Adriano, Marcus Aurelio, Commodus en Settimio Severo.

Hestia Giustiniani, Roman copy of Adriana Age from an original Bronze Dataable up to 470-460 AC | Courtesy © Torlonia Foundation

None of the works that are exhibited Myth and marble It appears today when he left the artist’s store, both for the wear of time and for the hands of generations of restorers who have done their bit.
Part Restoration and reconstruction It will emphasize how the sculptures have changed over the centuries, sometimes even converted into almost completely new works. Sometimes great artists were instructed to update old fragments or perfect fragments. For example, a trivial sculpture of an over -leaning ram was completely transformed, gloriously made by the addition of an exuberant head cut by Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1620.

“Each of these exceptional sculptures has experienced many lives throughout the centuries – explains Jennifer Casler Price, senior curator of Asian, African and American art in the Kimbell Art Museum and curator of the exhibition for the Kimbell – by crossing the space and time with the past, these powerful works still reson.

Prince Torlonia had ordered archaeologists to make excavations in some of her property, especially in a long series of the old via Appia. From this comes the moody attic lighting from the fifth century BC, the only Greek sculpture that can be seen and the oldest work of the entire Torlonia collection. The relief offers a rare representation of the place where it was found, in which elements of the architectural and commercial landscape are combined with symbolic motives and deities.

Torlonia Collection, Vulci Fantaculla | Photo: © Lorenzo de Masi | Courtesy Torlonia Foundation

To close the path is Death and memorySection that reflects one of the strengths of the collection: funeral monuments. These excellent sculptures emphasize the long Roman tradition of commemorating the deceased and visually immortalizing their appearance and personal identities in marble, to be exposed to the public and by visiting generations of offspring. Various extraordinary Sarcofagi, such as that of the work of Hercules and the lid with a relaxed couple, are among the largest works that have been cut in the survival of marble of ancient Rome.

“The Universal Spirit that has always informed classical art – repeats Carlotta Loverini Botta, director of the Torlonia Foundation – must continue to be cultivated for future generations. It is a universal language that lives from the constant reinvention of the classics through dialogue with modern culture.”

The works of the Torlonia collection were restored by the Torlonia Foundation with the contribution of the Bvlgari Foundation.
From 14 March to 19 July 2026 the exhibition will stop at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.