{"id":11012,"date":"2020-10-13T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2020-10-25T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:28:34","slug":"marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/13\/marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-entertainment-travel-travel-sculpture-b46e20c35c9c1d88180ec582f1c3cf34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles displayed in Rome<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/f369f31ecab64770857d93c867bd864c\/1000.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ROME (AP) \u2014 One of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures is going on display in Rome as part of the Eternal City\u2019s 150th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 90 works from the Torlonia Collection were opening Monday in the newly refurbished Villa Caffarelli, one of the Capitoline Museum\u2019s exhibition spaces overlooking the ancient Roman Forum. Organizers said there were plans to offer to lend the works to other museums, but said the coronavirus pandemic had put those plans on hold for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 620-piece Torlonia Collection is considered one of the greatest private collections of classical art, featuring marble busts, reliefs, sarcophagi and statues. It was begun by one of Rome\u2019s 19th century patricians, Prince Alessandro Torlonia, and was created in part from archaeological excavations of the Torlonia family\u2019s various estates in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-entertainment-travel-travel-sculpture-b46e20c35c9c1d88180ec582f1c3cf34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles displayed in Rome ROME (AP) \u2014 One of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures is going on display in Rome as part of the Eternal City\u2019s 150th anniversary celebrations. The 90 works from the Torlonia Collection were opening Monday in the newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}