Transnational Artistic Networks: Italians, Spaniards, and Latin Americans in Rome (1870–1915)

Giulia Murace

The project focuses on the presence of Latin-American artists in Rome between the late 19th and early 20th century. In particular, it proposes to examine the construction of networks between Latin-American, Italian, and Spanish artists as a strategy of integration and defense of their peripherality. The main research goal is to expand the analysis of the Ibero-Latin American network in the Eternal City and to problematize the interconnections forged in the new cosmopolitan Rome in the years between its elevation to the capital of unified Italy and the First World War with a special focus falling on the role played by Latin Americans in these dynamics. The study of the production of Latin American painters and sculptors during their stay in Rome, as well as their relationships with the international community in the city, will shed light on the contribution made by marginal artists to the creation of new transnational connections and the circulation of new artistic languages inside and outside Europe. This study aims to contribute to the construction of a theoretical framework for the artistic geographies of the global 19th century.