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The sentiment of the true

Fifty years after a grand exhibition in the National Gallery of Modern Art, i Macchiaioli come back to Rome.

This exhibition was prepared by Francesca Dini and the Foundation Brincherasio of Turin, and Dart Chiostro del Bramante of Rome, was then enriched for the Roman edition by splendid masterpieces, like “La scolarina” (The schoolgirl) of Giovanni Fattori, “Il rio a Riomaggiore” of Telemaco Signorini exposed for the first time, “Carro e bovi nella Maremma toscana” (Carriage and oxen in Maremma of Tuscany) of Giuseppe Abbati. The exhibition proposes an artistic itinerary of more than a hundred artworks, and is articulated in eight sections, giving an opportunity to study original and rigorous relation of Macchiaioli with “the principles of the true”.

Macchiailoli-pronounced as “Mah-key-ay-Oh-lee” is a small, but very important school of painting in Italy in the XIX century. The movement was born in Florence, in Tuscany i 1856, and was straightly related to the Risorgimento movement for the unification of Italy and creation of a free democratic state. Many of them fought along with Garibaldi and even lost their live on the battlefields. Some call i Macchiaioli the direct predecessors of the Impressionists. They took their name after the word macchia- in italian stain, spot. They were called so by unfriendly critiques of the time. I macchiaioli claimed that the form does not exist, but is created from the light and that the individual sees the whole world through the form, which are not isolated from the nature, thus as the stains of colour distinguished and other stains of colour, as the light when hitting the objects is being re-directed to our eye as a colour. The colour, according to i Macchiaioli should have substitute the reality in the painting as a composition of stains, and is the unique way for an individual to enter in contact with reality.

To learn more about i Macchiaioli, do not miss this exceptional opportunity to visit Rome and definitely visit Chiostro del Bramante till 2nd February 2008.

Our Yes Hotel is strategically close to Termini station from which you can take two buses to go to this Exhibition (Bus 40- Stop Chiesa Nuova and Bus 64- Vittorio Emanuele II or Chiesa Nuova Stops): Do not miss the chance to stay with us and enjoy unique Italian art!