When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Susan Wright Photography In A.D. 143 or 144, when he was in his early 20s, the future Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ... a surprising number of its original statues still stand.

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

The semicircular room stretched about 100 feet across and originally stood several stories tall with elaborate decorations.