Masterpieces from the Torlonia Collection in the Louvre Review

The Torlonia Marbles comprise over 100 statues and are the largest private collection of surviving ancient Greek and Imperial Roman sculptures to date. Named after the Torlonia princes in Rome who assembled the collection over the course of the 19th century, the collection recently underwent an extensive restoration process and can now be viewed for the first time outside Italy at the Louvre in Paris, the first stop on the world tour . Organized by the Louvre Museum in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Fondazione Torlonia, the exhibition is supported by Bulgari as its main patron.

“It’s a beautiful art with a very long history,” says Bulgari CEO Jean Christophe Babin, explaining why it was natural to support the cause, noting the parallels between the art forms. “The art of the restorer is a bit like the art of the high jeweler – as we say in Italian, it is an intelligent dance.” “You have to recreate the missing body part from original pieces.”