BRASCHI PALACE - MUSEUM OF ROME (ninth part)

The Torlonia family

ROOMS 7 AND 8

Works that used to decorate the now destroyed Palazzo Torlonia on Piazza Venezia

Five large charcoal drawings of mythological subjects: “Titanomachy”, “The Rape of Proserpina”, “The Toilette of Venus”, “Judgment of Paris” and “Rape of Europa” about 1837

“Alessandro Torlonia taken to the Temple of Glory” about 1886 all works by Francesco Podesti (1800/95)

Mural painting “Triumph of Hercules” about 1839 by Francesco Coghetti (1801/75)

Mural painting “Trionfo di Venere” about 1836/37 maybe by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/90)

“Antonio Canova shows Giovanni and Anna Maria Torlonia the sketch of Hercules and Lica” about 1811 maybe by Antonio Canova himself

ROOM 9

Twelve lunettes from the destroyed Apollo Theater with “The Months” 1839 by Filippo Bigioli (1798/1898)

Charcoal Drawing preparatory to the fresco of the Villa Torlonia Carolina at Castel Gandolfo “Apollo and the Hours” about 1844 by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/90)

ROOM 10 or ALCOVE ROOM

Incomplete reconstruction of the reception hall that preceded the alcove itself destroyed in the Palazzo Torlonia in Piazza Venezia with paintings “Judgment of Paris” and “Loves of the Gods” 1837 by Filippo Bigioli and stuccos such as “Medallions with stories of Psyche” by Pietro Galli (1804/77), a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen

“Plaster portrait of Anna Maria Torlonia” by Adamo Tadolini (1788/1868)