Scuola Romana
Scuola romana or Scuola di via Cavour was a 20th-century art movement defined by a group of painters within Expressionism and active in Rome between 1928 and 1945, and with a second phase in the mid-1950s. Birth of the movement In November 1927, artists Antonietta Raphaël and Mario Mafai moved to No. 325 of Roman street '' via Cavour'', in a Savoyan palace subsequently demolished in 1930 in order to allow the fascist construction of the ''New Empire Way'' (currently the via dei Fori Imperiali). The apartment's larger room was transformed into a studio. Within a short time, this studio became a meeting point for literati such as Enrico Falqui, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Libero de Libero, Leonardo Sinisgalli, as well as young artists Scipione, Renato Marino Mazzacurati, and Corrado Cagli. Contraposition to the sensibility of the Return to Order Movement The spontaneous confluence of artists at the via Cavour studio does not appear to have been led by true and proper programmes or ...
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