Lucci Hotel Rome Blog

Who

Carlo Levi was born in Turin in 1902 , he died in Rome in 1975. His family was quite rich and he had the possibility to follow the studies and received a university degree in Medicine, but his passion has always been painting to which he attributed the value of freedom. He was a diversly talented artist, as his artistic interests sweep between the painting and the writing.

He was a great writer, wrote a good number of books during his life but his masterpiece remains “Christ stopped at Eboli”. Levi is the symbol one of the major exponents of the Italian culture of twentieth-century.

Against the futurism avant-garde and after some years spent in Paris Carlo Levi joined the movement called “The six of Turin” starting doing some exhibitions all around Italy. If at the beginning he started to paint in chair colours then after his Roman stay he began to prefer more realistic paintings.

This is exactly what you can see in the Rome exhibition, which has on display 46 paintings of Levi, paintings in where you will be able to observe the passage from a chair style to the one of a more expressionist with dense brush-stroke. Most of the paintings are portraits, but in the ones where the city of Rome is the subject , appear one secret city distant from the one of “Caput Mundi”.

Where

In Torlonia Villa, one of the Rome’ s best preserved villas.

Villa Torlonia is a huge park scattered with plenty of small monuments. Torlonia’s Villa has also been the residence of Mussolini, during the Second World War and was occupiedby the allied Anglo-american military forces in Rome.

Then in 1975 the Italian government (Rome’s municipality) bought the Villa and from the 1976 it opened to the public.

You can enjoy a beautiful walk after you have admired Carlo Levi’s masterpieces.

When

From 27 of February to 15 of June.

Entrance fee 9 euro.

Where to stay

Certainly in the Hotel of the Artistes of Rome such as Hotel Des Artistes, or the sister Rome Hotel and romantic My Hotel Rome.

Still want to read more ? Then see  here for another Carlo Levi Exhibit Rome read in italian.