The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art.

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...

Their collection is the stuff of legend among art historians because the family has kept it private for so long. Most experts only know it from a 19th-century catalogue.

It’s the biggest collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in private hands. Unless invited by the Torlonia family, and I’m not on the family speed dial, no one’s seen it since 1976.

The exhibit will be split into sections—one showing sculptures housed in the Torlonia family’s Roman properties, another showing sculptures purchased by collectors in the 19th century.

ROME — On March 28, the Torlonia Foundation opened up two rooms in the former stables of Villa Albani Torlonia for the exhibition Antiquarium, putting a handful of newly restored Ancient Roman ...

According to the complaint, the collection of more than 600 Greek and Roman sculptures, amassed by the princely family who made a fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries as bankers to the Vatican ...

Archeologists have stumbled across a collection of ancient Roman coins in western Turkey. Though the treasure trove was found in 2019, it wasn’t until this year that the researchers learned just ...