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Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection

Statue of Cupid and Psyche, from the Torlonia Collection.

Until Jan 25, 2026
3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, United States

From the 15th to the 19th century, the princely Torlonia family amassed a collection of 620 catalogued works of art. Ancient busts, reliefs, statues, sarcophagi, and decorative elements comprise something of a Torlonia family narrative. They also tell the story of a private collection and its migration into museums and institutions. After traveling from Rome’s Musei Capitolini to Milan’s Piazza della Scala, and then on to New York and Paris, this exhibition of 58 priceless relics now lands in Forth Worth, at the Kimball Art Museum. “This is the first exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture in the Kimbell’s fifty-three-year history,” says Eric Lee, the museum’s director, “and is all the more exciting because the legendary Torlonia Collection has been largely unseen for the last seventy years.” —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Lorenzo De Masi © Fondazione Torlonia