{"id":111979,"date":"2023-01-10T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/?p=111979"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:22:07","slug":"the-via-cavour-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/the-via-cavour-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Via Cavour School"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Via Cavour School<\/b> was part of a broader phenomenon, an interesting, original historical moment summed up by the name <\/span>Scuola Romana<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(Roman School) which had a lasting influence on the Roman cultural milieu of this whole period.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group was formed by Mario Mafai<\/a>, Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl<\/a>, and Scipione, whose real name was Gino Bonichi<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paesaggio Romano by Mario Mafai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mario Mafai<\/strong> decided to devote himself to painting in the early 1920s, contrary to his family’s wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1924, he befriended Scipione<\/strong>, with whom he attended the fine arts academy in Rome. Another student there was <\/span>Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl<\/b>, a Lithuanian woman who had moved to Rome after living in London and Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Passionate about music and painting, she was exuberant, lively, and nonconformist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mafai and Rapha\u00eb<\/a>l fell in love and stayed together for the rest of their lives. They had three daughters: the journalist Miriam Mafai, Simona, and Giulia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl<\/strong> was born in 1895 in a Jewish village in Lithuania now called Kaunas. In 1905, after the death of her rabbi father, she moved to London with her mother. London was a common destination for Eastern Jews fleeing Tsarist pogroms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antonietta began a nomadic existence dotted with journeys and escapes that years later found its ultimate expression in a sculpture called <\/span>Escape from Sodom.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Escape from Sodom Sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She knew all the European capitals, inadvertently educating herself on international and avant-garde art. She had contacts with the artists of the <\/span>\u00c9cole de Paris<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her influence on this trio of friends from the Roman academy was therefore substantial.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Via Cavour School<\/strong> was formed around 1928-29. The name comes from the house-studio on Via Cavour where Mafai and Rapha\u00ebl went to live in 1927.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of their artist friends visited them there, along with writers like Giuseppe Ungaretti and Leonardo Sinisgalli. <\/span><\/p>\n

This inspired critic <\/span>Roberto Longhi<\/b> to coin the term Via Cavour School to label a very tight-knit group rather than an actual school.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Young woman at the typing machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Via Cavour School sought out lost intimate spaces, glimpses of a forgotten, soon-to-be-erased Rome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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