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Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces Dialectics of an Exhibition
Gedizlioglu, Ihsan Baris
Gedizlioglu, Ihsan Baris
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This thesis chronicles the logic and layout of Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces exhibition, curated by Dr Salvatore Settis and Dr Carlo Gasparri, and mounted at the Capitoline Museums, in 2020. The exhibition presents a long-awaited view of the highpoints in Roman sculpture, as collected by one of the great princely families of caput mundi. It is the result of decades of research. Its popular appeal, yet rigorous scholarly methods are presented with utmost subtlety, and complex visual and expository techniques. The exhibition’s resolution of distinct, and often contradictory, concerns lies in the precise use of historical curatorial methods. These methods, recast under an ahistorical tendency, are used pragmatically to construct visual statements dealing with restoration, collection practices, taste and meaning of classics. The exhibition is an emblematic example of curatorial practice of the twenty-first century and offers a practical and historical guide to construction of taste in relation to antiquities. To understand the language of the exhibition, syntactical, historical and semantic formulations are put under investigation. In that regard, this paper takes the Torlonia Exhibition as a case study and investigates the dialectic and linguistic foundations of curatorial practice, taking a look at our contemporary situation.
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Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2021.
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2021
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Torlonia family, Archaeological collections, Classical marble sculpture, Private collections
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Gedizlioglu, Ihsan Baris. "Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces Dialectics of an Exhibition". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.