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The Scuola Romana<\/strong>, or Roman School, encompasses a range of painters and sculptors active in twentieth-century Rome. Its history took shape between the World Wars and continued, through individual artists\u2019 careers, after 1945. Mario Mafai, Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl, Scipione, and Antonio Donghi reveal the breadth of its artistic approaches.<\/p>\n

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Scuola Romana artists between the World Wars<\/h2>\n

The name brings together artists connected through Rome, friendships, and shared meeting places.<\/p>\n

In 1933, critic Waldemar-George used the term \u201c\u00c9cole de Rome\u201d in connection with an exhibition of Corrado Cagli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, and Emanuele Cavalli at the Galerie Jacques Bonjean in Paris.<\/p>\n

These artists developed personal visual languages, often distant from the monumental rhetoric of official art. Their relationships with cultural institutions and the Fascist regime nevertheless varied.<\/p>\n

Rome, its transformation and its meeting places<\/h2>\n

Portraits, still lifes, and cityscapes were central to their work. Rome could appear quiet and familiar, or unsettling and visionary.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s transformation became a particular concern for Mario Mafai. His Demolizioni paintings<\/a> evoke neighborhoods disrupted by the demolitions of the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Artists exchanged ideas in studios, including those at Villa Strohl Fern, as well as in caf\u00e9s and galleries. Caff\u00e8 Aragno<\/a>, Caff\u00e8 Greco, and the Galleria d\u2019Arte di Roma formed part of this cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1935 by Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt, the Galleria della Cometa<\/a> also became an important venue, with contributions from Libero de Libero and Corrado Cagli.<\/p>\n

Scuola Romana Artists and Their Approaches<\/h2>\n

Italian Magical Realism<\/h3>\n

Antonio Donghi is a leading figure in Italian Magical Realism<\/a>. His precisely rendered figures and objects appear suspended in a still, timeless atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Francesco Trombadori and Riccardo Francalancia explored other forms of figurative painting rooted in everyday subjects. Ferruccio Ferrazzi followed a more visionary path, with Expressionist qualities.<\/p>\n