Archivio della Scuola Romana
In 1983 a group of intellectuals and artists, that included Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Netta Vespignani, Antonello Trombadori, Miriam Mafai and Alberto Ziveri, founded an association devoted to an important artistic period that had until then been neglected: it was the Roman School between the 1920s and 1940s that took in the movements Valori Plastici, the School of Via Cavour, Tonalism, and the last phase, which covered realism and expressionism around the period of World War II.
Right from the start, the Archive has benefited from the active participation of the leading artists, gallery owners and literati from the period who are still alive. They have donated documents and, above all, their direct accounts of the period. An important role is also played the heirs, whose contributions are helping to give a solid base to the archive.
Over the years, this early core of work has grown thanks to researchers and scholars such as Valerio Rivosecchi, Francesca Romana Morelli, Carolina Marconi and Isabella Montesi who, by extending their investigations to libraries and private and public archives throughout Italy, have made the Roman School Archive a point of reference for those who wish to study this period of art history. In its twenty-three years, the Archive has assembled ten thousand catalogues, books and monographs, most of which are magazines, specialised publications, correspondence, diaries and handwritten documents by the artists or their near ones, most of which have never been published.
An important section is the collection of photographs, either originals or images of works of art. From the beginning the materials have been available for Italian and foreign scholars and students to consult in person, and since 1997 some have been available online on the website
www.scuolaromana.it
Donors
Alberto Ziveri
Pericle Fazzini
Antonello e Donatella Trombadori
Ninetta Ferrazzi
Miriam, Giulia, Simona Mafai
Gustavo e Luciana Francalancia
Isabella Drei
Giuliana Fusari (per Antonio Donghi)
Carlo Francesco Bertoletti
Olga e Guglielmo Capogrossi
Vera e Maria Letizia Cavalli
Eugenia e Luciano Oppo
Vera Gerardi
Caterina e Guenda Castellucci
Franco Muzzi (per Corrado Cagli)
Rolando Monti
Francesco Di Cocco
Adriana Pincherle
Dario Sabatello
Pierluigi e Antonio Pirandello
Claudio Bonichi (per Scipione)
Mario Socrate
Romeo Lucchese
Mario Cavatorta
Mario Rivosecchi
Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi