Scuola Romana

325 of Roman street via Cavour, in a Savoyan palace subsequently demolished in 1930 in order to allow the fascist construction of the New Empire Way (currently the via dei Fori Imperiali).

The spontaneous confluence of artists at the via Cavour studio does not appear to have been led by true and proper programmes or manifestos, but rather by friendship, cultural syntheses and a singular pictorial cohesion.

The first identification of this artistic group should be attributed to Roberto Longhi, who wrote:[3] From its very address, I'd call this the Scuola di via Cavour, where Mafai and Raphaël used to work... and added: An eccentric and anarchoid art that could hardly be accepted by us, but it's all the same a notable sign of today's mores.Longhi used this definition to indicate the special work he perceived these artists to be performing within the expressionist universe, breaking off from official art movements.

Among them were Roberto Melli, Giovanni Stradone, Renato Marino Mazzacurati, Guglielmo Janni, Renzo Vespignani and the so-called tonalists led by Corrado Cagli, Carlo Levi, Emanuele Cavalli and Capogrossi, all gravitating around the activities of the "Galleria della Cometa”.

[7][8] Later members included personalities such as Fausto Pirandello (son of Nobel Prize Luigi),[9] Renato Guttuso, the brothers Afro and Mirko Basaldella,[10] Leoncillo Leonardi, Raffaele Frumenti, Sante Monachesi, Giovanni Omiccioli and Toti Scialoja.