The Kimbell Art Museum

Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
September 14, 2025 – January 25, 2026
Renzo Piano Pavilion

Presented at the Kimbell Art Museum in collaboration with the Fondazione Torlonia, Myth and Marble brings to Fort Worth fifty-eight masterpieces from the celebrated Torlonia Collection—the most important private collection of ancient Roman sculpture in the world.

The exhibition is part of a three-stop North American tour originally conceived and curated by Lisa Ayla Çakmak (Art Institute of Chicago), and overseen in Texas by Jennifer Casler Price, Curator of Antiquities at the Kimbell Art Museum.

Hosted in the luminous spaces of the Renzo Piano Pavilion, the exhibition offers an exceptional opportunity to encounter works that span from the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD: portraits of emperors and heroes, figures of gods and goddesses, and monumental sarcophagi carved with mythological scenes.
Half of the sculptures on view have been newly restored by the Fondazione Torlonia, with the contribution of Bvlgari, as part of a decade-long program dedicated to the preservation and study of the Collection.

Following its debut at the Art Institute of Chicago, the exhibition marks the second stop of the North American tour before continuing to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection is co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and Fondazione Torlonia, in collaboration with the Kimbell Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and The Museum Box.

The works from the Torlonia Collection have been restored by Fondazione Torlonia with the contributions of Fondazione Bvlgari. Chiomenti supports the core institutional activities of Fondazione Torlonia.

Exhibition opening events are supported in part by the Consulate General of Italy in Houston.