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Catalogue compiled by Pietro Ercole Visconti on the Torlonia Collection

In 1876, Pietro Ercole Visconti, illustrious curator of the Torlonia Museum, published the first catalogue of the antiquities collected and carefully preserved by several generations of the Torlonia family, defining them in the foreword to his catalogue “an enormous treasure of erudition and art”.