Novecento Italiano

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Novecento Italiano was an early 20th-century Italian art movement that sought to revive and modernize classical Italian artistic traditions through a return to order, solidity, and figurative representation.

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Novecento Italiano canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian art movement
art movement
activePeriod 1920s
1930s
aim modernization of classical forms
promotion of solidity and monumentality in art
revival of classical Italian artistic traditions
artForm painting
sculpture
artisticStyle classicism
figurative art
return to order
associatedWith Benito Mussolini
characteristic clear, legible figuration
emphasis on volume and solidity
monumental composition
simplified forms
country Italy
exhibitedAt Milan Biennial
linked to: Monza Biennial
field visual arts
firstMajorExhibition 1923 Milan exhibition
foundedBy Margherita Sarfatti
hasGenre figurative painting
historical painting
religious painting
ideology cultural renewal
nationalism
inception 1922
influenced Italian public and monumental art
interwar Italian painting
influencedBy Italian Renaissance art
Metaphysical painting
classical antiquity
return to order movement
language Italian
location Milan
notableMember Achille Funi
Anselmo Bucci
Dudreville Leonardo
Emilio Malerba
Mario Sironi
Piero Marussig
Ubaldo Oppi
opposedTo Futurism
avant-garde abstraction
politicalContext Italian Fascism
region Lombardy
relatedMovement Valori Plastici

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Carlo Carrà movement Novecento Italiano
Giovanni Muzio movement Novecento Italiano
Novecento Italiano artists movement Novecento Italiano
Novecento Italiano exhibition movement Novecento Italiano
Ca’ Brutta, Milan architecturalStyle Novecento Italiano
Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan architecturalStyle Novecento Italiano