Ancient Greek and Roman statues on display in new exhibition

giovanni torlonia his son alessandro between the end of the eighteenth century and the entire nineteenth century bought many antiquities which largely came from older collections we have told the story of the formation of this museum torlonia through older collections of great importance such as the Giustiniani collection which is the one in the room in which we are therefore a collection of collections in the literal sense and represents a cross-section of the collection of antiquities from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century but without explaining many many things it tells us the history of imperial portraiture for example tells us the history of ancient collecting because we have a Greek relief from the end of the fifth century which already in the second century AD, therefore in Roman times, had been the object of the antiques market and decorated as an antique piece a villa of a great Herodian figure attic his villa on the Appian Way therefore the phenomenon of collecting is told from its most remote origins first of all it is important for the size of the collection 620 pieces and even more in reality they are a truly considerable number and then it is important because it has absorbed a series of nuclei of equally important collections from previous centuries almost in bulk therefore allowing us to study a series of collecting phenomena that go back to the 16th century and even beyond these works first of all are only a small part of the Torlonia collection which is made up of over 600 pieces today we are let's say we managed to exhibit around ninety very selected pieces in this very important exhibition, these pieces will be the absolute showcase of the collection and will have further exhibitions in prestigious foreign stages in Paris during the following years, the foundation will carry on the restoration works of arrangement also of study in the remaining part of the collection and will identify, in agreement with the ministry and the owners of the works, a definitive location for the museum which also has the prestige due to this collection with a very long history perhaps