Pandora
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (Rome 1717 - 1799)
Pandora
Marble of Carrara
The “Torlonia Pandora” is a reproduction of the Capitoline Pandora that perhaps originally represented a priest holding a canopic vase. It was found headless in the “Palestra” in Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli and became the property of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este.
In 1753 Pope Benedict XIV purchased it for his Capitoline Collection. Asked to restore it, Bartolomeo Cavaceppi replaced the head that had been added in 1500 with an older one. While restoring the Capitoline Pandora, Cavaceppi took the opportunity to make the Torlonia copy with the head (later stolen) modelled on the one from the year 1500.
Provenance:
From Palazzo Torlonia in Piazza Venezia, after in Villa Torlonia