Ancient and Modern Classicism in Italy – Online Exhibition
Ancient and Modern Classicism in Italy
Online Exhibition
For the Summer of 2020 Galleria del Laocoonte and W. Apolloni of Rome have prepared a monumental exhibition centred around the inspiration that Italian Twentieth Century art drew from the ancient Graeco-Roman figurative civilisation. Among the many works presented, the wide painted panel by master of fresco Achille Funi (1890-1972), representing Parnassus, towers over every other. Pompeian in inspiration, it used to decorate the classroom in Brera where the painter himself taught fresco technique until his death.
Another exceptional piece, for both size and force of expression, is the coloured cartoon by Alberto Ziveri (1908-1990) depicting the goddess Minerva with the attributes of Rome, employed to make the colossal mosaic for the firefighter’s school near Rome. A small, exquisite bronze by Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960) entitled Armour, celebrates the ancient roman rural labourer that would take arms if his Country were in peril, combining the dynamic simplicity of modernity with the memory of archaic pre-classical bronzes. In a similar way the sculptor Libero Andreotti (1875-1933) cast his Venere-Fortuna as if it were an early renaissance bronze. In addition to this, La Vigne, a rare sculpture by Andreotti in Candoglia’s marble – the stone used at Milan’s Duomo – portrays a seductive Bacchante, with a drunken little Bacchus lying on her back, the teeth marks of the chisel recalling Michelangelo’s non-finito working practise.
Beauty and struggle are what we prize in art, as shown by our adoption of Laocoön as the symbol for our galleries in both Rome and London. The life-size Laocoön marble group by Vincenzo de’ Rossi, a two tonne mannerist masterpiece that stands at the centre of our roman exhibiting space is both a symbol and an aesthetic paragon for us, and can be viewed alongside Patrick Alò’s contemporary interpretation of the same subject thanks to London Art Week’s new online platform.
Artworks
ACHILLE FUNI
The Parnassus, 1948-53
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 212×476 cm
£100,000.00
Alberto Ziveri
Minerva, c.1940,
Pencil, charcoal and pastel on paper, 377×200 cm
P.O.A.
Andrea Spadini
Leda and the swan, 1958
Glazed ceramic, 80x52x27 cm
£ 42,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Dancing monkeys, 1956
Glazed ceramic, 28x9x12 cm
(Set of 4) £ 24,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Dancing monkeys, 1956
Glazed ceramic, 28x9x12 cm
(Set of 4) £ 24,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Dancing monkeys, 1956
Glazed ceramic, 28x9x12 cm
(Set of 4) £ 24,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Dancing monkeys, 1956
Glazed ceramic, 28x9x12 cm
(Set of 4) £ 24,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Sailing monkeys, 1954-55,
Glazed ceramic, 21.5×31.5 cm
(Set of 4) £ 28,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Sailing monkeys, 1954-55,
Glazed ceramic, 21.5×31.5 cm
(Set of 4) £ 28,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Sailing monkeys, 1954-55,
Glazed ceramic, 21.5×31.5 cm
(Set of 4) £ 28,000.00
Andrea Spadini
Sailing monkeys, 1954-55,
Glazed ceramic, 21.5×31.5 cm
(Set of 4) £ 28,000.00
Andrea Spadini
The river Tiber, 1959-60
Silver, 26x40x11 cm
£ 62,000.00
Antonio Canova
Joachim Murat & Caroline Bonaparte, 1813
Plaster, 66 & 58.5 cm respectively
P.O.A.
Corrado Cagli
Laocoon, 1938,
Monotype, 325×250 mm
£ 15,000.00
Corrado Cagli
St. John’s Eve, 1934
Encaustic on panel, 40×59.7 cm
£ 75,000.00
Duilio Cambellotti
Armour, 1918-19
Bronze, h 43 cm, base 20 cm
£ 60,000.00
Duilio Cambellotti
The Eumenides, 1948
Tempera on paper, 70.3×74 cm
£ 25,000.00
Duilio Cambellotti
The Prefect of Rome’s Punishement, 1948-50
Tempera on paper, 360×996 mm
£ 18,000.00
Gino Severini
Flora, 1939
Tempera and Indian ink on paper, 60×48 cm
£ 20,000.00
Gino Severini
Silvano
Indian ink on paper, 60×48 cm
£ 20,000.00
Libero Andreotti
The Vine, 1909
Marble, 68.5x36x30 cm
£ 180,000.00
Libero Andreotti
Venus Fortune, 1928-31
Bronze, 78x25x15 cm
£ 120,000.00
Maria Savinio
Centaurina, 1950
Embroideery on canvas, 41.5×31 cm
£ 12,000.00
Maria Savinio
Orpheus the widower, 1952-54
Embroidery on canvas, 48×39 cm
£ 12,000.00
Maria Savinio
The return of the goddess to the temple, 1944
Embroidery on canvas, 52×38 cm
£ 12,000.00
Mario Sironi
Fighting soldiers, 1935
Pencil and watercolour Indian ink, 56×54 cm
£ 21,000.00
Patrick Alò
Chimera, 2009
Scrap iron, 140x100x90 cm
£ 40,000.00
Patrick Alò
Laocoon, 2013
Scrap iron,180x100x100 cm
£ 60,000.00
Patrick Alò
Wolf, 2015
Scrap iron, 110x90x40 cm
£ 35,000.00
Publio Morbiducci
Horses, c.1941
Plaster, 44.5x49x14.5cm
£ 18,000.00 (each)
Publio Morbiducci
Horses, c.1941
Plaster, 44.5x49x14.5cm
£ 18,000.00 (each)
Vincenzo de’ Rossi
Laocoon and his two sons, c.1580
Marble, 197x147x68 cm
P.O.A
Vittorio Grassi
Remembrance festival of the proclamation of Italy, 1910
200×69 cm
P.O.A.