Galleria Borghese
Subtitle: capolavori dall'antico = masterpieces of antiquity
By: a cura di Anna Coliva, Geraldine Leardi
Publisher: Galleria Borghese; De Luca editori d'arte
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Rome]
Language: ita; eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9788865574584; 9788894529241
Subjects: Classical Marble sculpture; Exhibitions; Art collections; Sculpture; Galleria Borghese; Musée du Louvre
Description: This book is dedicated to the The Borghese Family and Antiquity exhibition. Those were extraordinary and perhaps once-in-a-lifetime days, when absolutely magnificent ancient marbles such as the Sleeping Hermaphrodite, the Cupid astride a Centaur, and the Silenus and the infant Bacchus returned to occupy their place in the Borghese collection and in the Villa on the Pincian Hill. 0Acquired by the cardinal nepote Scipione Borghese in the 17th century and then sold, together with hundreds of other sculptures, to Napoleon by Prince Camillo in 1807, they became part of the core archaeological collections of the Louvre, where they are now enjoyed by millions of visitors. In 2011 some of these amazing works traveled in the opposite direction, from Paris to Rome, enabling us, for just a few months, to reassemble the heart of that collector?s will ? a vision completely new in the contemporary world ? and to make its beauty and value topical.
Notes: At head of title: Galleria Borghese in mostra.

"The Galleria Borghese in mostra project publishes photographic books that do not present the works, but the settings that host them, and retrace the steps of a visitor throughan uncommented flow of documentary and evocative images."--Page 160.

Text in Italian and English.