When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might ... works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are special, and viewers who give ...

5 1/4 x 4 x 2 in. (13.3 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm.) ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures ... as the art historian Ernst Gombrich once wrote about classical sculpture, “and yet as beings from a different, better world.” ...

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Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” at the Art Institute of Chicago.