American Academy in Rome - Spellbound by Rome

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

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Spellbound by Rome

Tuesday 15 February
6pm-8pm - Exhibition Opening

The Anglo-American community in Rome, 1890-1914, and the founding of the Keats-Shelley House
Incantati da Roma: la comunità anglo-americana a roma, 1890-1914, e la fondazione della Keats-Shelley House
Gallery

Divided among four locations (American Academy in Rome, Keats- Shelley Memorial House, the church of St. Paul's Within-the-Walls, and the Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen), this exhibition celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Keats-Shelley House as a museum in the first decade of the twentieth century. It focuses on the founders and their friends: the community of British and American artists and writers who lived in Rome from 1890 to 1914. Initially "spellbound by Rome", these expatriates and their Italian colleagues created an intellectual community that weathered the changes of Roma Capitale in the years before the First World War. Paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative arts, and illustrated books document their activities and their debt to the English Romantic poets.

The exhibition will be open in all four locations from February 16 to April 16, 2005, with the following hours:

American Academy in Rome (via Angelo Masina, 5): Tuesday-Saturday, 4pm-7pm;

Keats-Shelley House (Piazza di Spagna, 26): Monday-Friday 9am-1pm, 3pm-6pm; Saturday 11am-2pm, 3pm-6pm;

St. Paul's Within-the-Walls (via Napoli, 58): Monday-Friday 9am-4pm;

Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen (via P. Stanislao Mancini, 20): Tuesday-Sunday, 9am-7pm.

The exhibition and catalog are made possible in part by grants from The Samuel H.Kress Foundation, the Felicia Fund, Inc. and the Embassy of the United States of America, as well as gifts from Elizabeth Bartman and Andrew Solomon, Benjamin C.Bradlee, William B.Hart and Constance Eaton, Alexandra Cushing Howard, and anonymous donors.

Please note that the American Academy in Rome requires all visitors attending events to present a legal document of identification.

For further information: Contact the Programs Office (tel. +39-06-5846459)
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Rome, Italy.