The archival collection of the Quadriennale is closely connected to the promotion of 20th- and 21st-century Italian visual arts carried out by the Institution since the 1930s. The archival funds conserved include the large core of historical papers of the Quadriennale (1927-2000) and the over 15,000 continuously updated documentation files on Italian artists ranging from the 20th century to the latest generations.
In recent years, 12 additional funds donated by private individuals in the form of artists, art historians and gallery owners’ archives have been added to the Quadriennale’s two documentary cores.
For research purposes, an online database is available which enables the integrated consultation of the archival funds inventoried to date.
Paper records from over eighty years of activity. Documents on the Quadriennali d’Arte, the exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and relationships with cultural institutions. The materials include correspondence with artists, critics, collectors and scholars, images of the exhibitions, photographs of the works, films and press reviews.
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Files on over thirteen thousand five hundred 20th and 21st-century artists, mostly Italian. The collection is constantly being updated. It includes correspondence, photographic material, printed material (invitations, leaflets, booklets, posters), press cuttings, curricula and short biographies.
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The artistic and literary activity of Nino Bertocchi (1900–1956), relationships with art historians and critics, artists, editors, architects and scholars. Bertocchi had over sixty correspondents, including: Argan, Bardi, Falqui, Mafai, Pavolini and Pagano. Oppo sent him more than fifty letters, which are of particular interest.
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The entire career of Carandente (1920–2009), from his roles in public administration to his scientific activity and research and his work as an art critic, exhibition organizer and teacher. Papers, sketches, notes, articles, conference and television talks, press releases and photographs.
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Primarily comprised of the epistles of Libero de Libero (1903–1981), a poet, art critic and scholar, whose correspondents included: Pecci Blunt, Brandi, Colla, Montale and Quasimodo. The collection also contains photographs, files on publishing projects, writings in his own hand and printed material.
The activity of Ercole Drei (1886–1973), a painter and sculptor, from his early training to his Roman period at Villa Strohl-Fern, with extensive documentation of his monumental works. The collection comprises photographs, flyers, posters, leaflets, invitations and, to a lesser extent, correspondence and writings.
Conserved in part by Luciana Gentilini Giuntoli, the artist’s wife, and in part by the Quadriennale, this collection brings together the papers of Gentilini (1909–1981), photographs of his works, bibliographic material and records of the promotional work carried out by his wife until 2010.
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This collection documents the wide-ranging activities of Elena Lacava (1924–2005), from her debut has an artist to her work promoting art in the 1970s and 1980s at Il Luogo gallery. Correspondence, printed material, photographs, books and the collection of the ELLE CI serial editions comprised of files of drawings, books as objects of art and multiples.
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All the activity of Umberto Mastroianni (1910–1998). Writings, papers, catalogues, correspondence regarding exhibitions and events, photographs of works and exhibitions. Press reviews on the artist from the 1930s to the 1990s.
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In addition to the history of the 'Il Pulsante leggero' association, which Funari has directed since the 1980s, traces of the beginnings of Computer Art in Italy are preserved through the documentation of festivals, exhibitions and conferences. Photographic and audiovisual materials included.
This collection reflects the various fields of activity of Antonello Trombadori (1917–1993). Letters, writings, records, notes, files of documents, printed material and photographs, particularly works of art. His correspondents included: Morandi, Arcangeli, Fellini, Pasolini, Volponi and Berlinguer.
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Over five hundred works on paper by Lorenzo Tornabuoni (1934–2004), mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the core collection of works donated by Irene de Guttry, the collection also includes private papers, catalogues and photographs from his sister Lietta Tornabuoni.
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A collection of around one thousand five hundred articles written by the art critic for newspapers and periodicals. A record of Italian art through reviews of monographic exhibitions and major events. The publications include: "Il Momento", "Qui Arte Contemporanea", "La Fiera Letteraria", "Il Corriere della Sera", "Momento-sera", "Il Giornale Nuovo", "La Voce" and "L’Europa letteraria".
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1970s-80s Letters and documentation sent to Vincitorio by numerous artists. 143 envelopes of monographic files in alphabetical order.
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The Quadriennale’s library specialises in modern and contemporary Italian art. The library’s bibliographic material is continually updated, and now numbers around 50,000 volumes from the Institution’s own collection and the 8 special funds acquired through donations since 2005. The Quadriennale’s entire book heritage is catalogued and accessible online through the National Library Service (SBN), which the Institution has joined through the Rome Cultural Institutes hub.
The institution’s main library collection comprising around thirty-five thousand books. Catalogues of group and solo shows featuring artists from the 20th and 21st century, essays and over two hundred art publications. Around twenty active subscriptions to specialist periodicals.
The nucleus of the Roman collector’s contemporary art library, which is now held by the Quadriennale. Around six hundred books on the latest generations of Italian and foreign artists and the biggest names in 20th-century art.
Catalogues, monographs, lesser printed material on art and
artists from the 1980s to the latest generations.
This collection reflects the art historian and critic’s special interest in abstract art, particularly the way it developed in central and southern Italy from the 1960s to the 1980s. It comprises a total of just over one thousand volumes arranged in alphabetical order.
A small, valuable collection of volumes on video art from the 1970s to the 2000s put together by a connoisseur of the subject.
A personal library of a thousand volumes, some rare and valuable, collected with passion by the Milanese collector. It reflects the work of great Italian and international artists, especially in the second half of the 20th century.
Collection of book materials from the personal library of the collector and gallery owner on the art of recent decades.
Part of Trombadori’s art library, donated by his son Duccio. It reflects his particular interest in Guttuso and, more generally, in Realism, the Roman school and Russian art from the avant-gardes to the dissident artists. Around two thousand volumes in total.
The nucleus of the scholar’s library, now held by the Quadriennale. It comprises around three thousand volumes, including the catalogues of various Italian art galleries from the 1950s to the 1970s, such as the Obelisco, the Tartaruga, the Attico, the Marlborough, the Milione and the Studio Marconi
The library collection has also been boosted by donations from: Archivio Mario Quesada, Incontri internazionali d’arte, Sigismondo De Bartolomeis, Anna Finocchi, Flaminio Gualdoni, Daniela Lancioni, Luisa Laureati, Paola Mola, Elena Pontiggia, and Fabio Sargentini.
by Laura Barreca, Andrea Lissoni, Luca Lo Pinto, Costanza Paissan
Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2014, 496 pp, 500 illustrazioni a colori.
The first atlas of young art in Italy after the year 2000: the most dynamic cultural realities and emerging artists. A wealth of information and immages, with accompanying texts by four new-generation curators. An investigation into where Italian art is going.
Founded in the early 1950s by Fortunato Bellonzi and Antonio Baldini, this series has made a fundamental contribution to our knowledge of certain periods and movements in Italian art, as well as of individual artists. Publication ceased in 1963 and later started again, under Bellonzi and Francesco Franceschini, for just two issues (1968, 1974), before being resumed in 2004 with a new series
Gino Agnese – Giovanna Bonasegale – Mariateresa Chirico – Enrico Crispolti – Matteo D’Ambrosio – Anty Pansera
n.s./5, Electa, Milano 2008, 216 pp., 375 illustrazioni in b/n, 30 tavole a colori
This series has represented a new model for organizing existing documents on some of the main art movements in Italy between the 19th and 20th century. It was created at the end of the 1950s by a committee comprised of Giulio Carlo Argan, Giorgio Bacchetti, Fortunato Bellonzi, Enzo Carli, Giorgio Castelfranco, Guglielmo De Angelis D’Ossat, Enzo Francia, Emilio Lavagnino, Marco Valsecchi and Lionello Venturi. In 2009, the Archivi del Futurismo, to mark one hundred years since the birth of the movement, were the object of a new updated and extended edition, with the first volume being published at the end of 2010.
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