When Napoleon acquired 695 ancient statues from the Borghese family collection in 1807, flabbergasted contemporaries called the act ?an indelible shame.? The collection was born two centuries earlier when Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, made it his life?s work to bring together the masterpieces available to him. He assembled more than 2,000 pieces, including antique statues, sculptures by Bernini and canvases by Raphael, Caravaggio and Titian.
The collection?s heir, Camillo Borghese, was pressured to sell the most precious ancient statues to his brother-in-law, Napoleon. They were shipped to the Mus?e Napol?on in Paris, today known as the Louvre.
For the first time in nearly 200 years, 65 works will return to? the Galleria Borghese in Rome for the exhibition ?The Borghese Family and Antiquity,? which runs through April 9, 2012. Using 18th- and 19th-century drawings and texts as references, the curators have displayed the pieces as they were before their removal to Paris.
Among the masterpieces displayed are the Borghese Vase, a neo-Attic vessel standing nearly six feet high, carved with Dionysian scenes, the Sleeping Hermaphrodite restored by Gianlorenzo Bernini; and the charming Hellenistic Baroque-style sculpture of a Cupid Astride a Centaur. The exhibition is spread over both floors of the Galleria Borghese. Reservations are necessary.
Source: http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/borghese-treasures-return-to-rome/
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