In the happy days before the pandemic, when crowds streamed through the archway of Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, few people intent on visiting an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) stopped to look closely at the handsome classical façades surrounding its forecourt. These buildings are part of a remarkable Victorian campus
This small but highly important exhibition of the Torlonia Marbles is hosted in a newly renovated space on the ground floor of the Villa Caffarelli, Rome. It is adjacent to the Palazzo dei Conservatori, the site of the world’s first public museum created in 1734, when Pope Clement XII founded the Museo Capitolino, now a wider institution that also includes