{"id":114964,"date":"2023-05-05T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/?p=114964"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:25:20","slug":"galleria-di-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/galleria-di-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Galleria di Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galleria di Roma<\/h1>\n

In 1930, the Galleria di Roma<\/strong> opened on Via Veneto 7 in the Palazzo Copped\u00e8, the headquarters of the Fascist Confederation of Professionals and Artists<\/strong>, a stone’s throw from the Ministry of Corporations.<\/p>\n

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Galleria di Roma opened<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Director Pier Maria Bardi<\/em>, a former gallery owner in Milan, and Cipriano Efisio Oppo<\/strong> wanted to create an art center that was distinguished yet not too official, a barometer of emerging ideas in Italian painting that was also open to the foreign avant-garde<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cipriano Efisio Oppo<\/strong> convinced Mussolini that an art gallery partly financed by the National Confederation, alongside the Quadriennale, would realize his plan to make Rome a hub for the dialogue and bringing together of national ideas.<\/p>\n

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Cipriano Efisio Oppo The chestnuts 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Galleria di Roma<\/em> was born, with its patron Mussolini providing a personal grant of a hundred thousand lire.<\/p>\n

The first exhibition<\/h2>\n

Galleria di Roma opened with a retrospective of Armando Spadini<\/strong>, followed by a show of works by the young Mario Mafai<\/strong><\/a> and Scipione<\/a> in November 1930 that was a hit with critics and the public.<\/p>\n

In 1933 Bardi left the gallery to take over \u201cQuadrante,\u201d a literary journal on Italian rationalist architecture.<\/p>\n