Date: 26/10/2015

Period: Thursday 29 October at 6pm

Event: Inauguration of the Prencipe Gallery

Inauguration of the Prencipe Gallery, the new space housing the Umberto Prencipe Archive and the Roman Nineteenth Century Archive.

The Gallery is located in the Monteverde Vecchio district and comprises an exhibition hall, dedicated to hosting art exhibitions, courses and conferences, and two rooms housing the library, the collection of paintings, drawings and engravings and the extensive archive material – autograph writings, press reviews and photographs – found in the studio of the artist Umberto Prencipe at the time of his death, as well as all the documentary material owned by the Archivio dell’Ottocento Romano.

The library, specialising in 19th- and 20th-century art and engraving, contains around 1,500 titles and numerous magazines. The catalogue will soon be available online.

We will inaugurate the space on Thursday 29 October at 6 p.m. with a selection of works owned by the Umberto Prencipe Archive.

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Date: 28/02/2014

Period: 28 February – 22 June 2014

Event: Umberto Prencipe and Tuscany. Between modernity and tradition

From 28 February to 22 June 2014, the Ragghianti Foundation in Lucca is hosting the exhibition Umberto Prencipe and Tuscany. Between modernity and tradition, curated by Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto and Sabrina Spinazzè. The exhibition, which originated from the donation of 54 works, mainly of Tuscan subjects, that Giovanna Prencipe wished to make to the Ragghianti Foundation, examines the artist’s relationship with the landscape and cultural scene of Tuscany.

This relationship unfolded in three different periods of his life. In 1899, as a young painter still training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the artist spent a short summer in Viareggio; between 1914 and 1921 he lived between Lucca, where he taught engraving for a year at the local Institute of Fine Arts, and Versilia; between 1956 and 1957, now elderly, he stayed in Barga and Saltino di Vallombrosa, producing poignant views.

The period between 1914 and 1921 was particularly rich in works and implications. It was a decisive period, marked by his encounter with the painter Alceste Campriani, then director of the Institute of Fine Arts in Lucca, and artists of the post-Macchiaioli culture who were sensitive to the stimuli of French culture at the time. Also fundamental was his friendship with “the prince of Italian journalists”, Ugo Ojetti, his neighbour in Forte dei Marmi and a staunch supporter of the need to reconcile the nineteenth-century national tradition with Cezanne’s modernity. These were contacts rich in developments, destined to mark a decisive change of direction in Prencipe’s painting, clearly evident in the many landscapes he painted in the countryside around Lucca, Viareggio, Bozzano, Forte dei Marmi and Massarosa.

The exhibition features 109 works, 54 of which belong to the Ragghianti Foundation, while the others come from private collections and the Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto Foundation, the Umberto Prencipe Archive, the National Museum of Palazzo Mansi in Lucca, the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Modern Art Gallery of Rome and the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Viareggio.

One section is dedicated to the artists with whom Prencipe was most closely associated during his years in Tuscany: Alceste Campriani, Moses Levy, Giuseppe Viner and Antonio Antony De Witt.

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Date: 27/05/2009

Period: 27 May – 13 September 2009

Event: Umberto Prencipe 1879-1962. Reality and Vision

Umberto Prencipe 1879-1962 Reality and Vision, curated by Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto and Sabrina Spinazzè, was the first retrospective dedicated to the artist, held from 27 May to 13 September 2009 in the rooms of the Museum of Rome – Palazzo Braschi.

The event was inspired by the donation made in 2007 by Giovanna Prencipe, the artist’s daughter, to the Museum of Rome of 188 works including oil paintings, drawings and engravings on Roman subjects.

The exhibition featured the artist’s most important works: 121 paintings and engravings from public collections – the National Gallery of Modern Art, the Modern Art Gallery of Rome, National Institute for Graphics, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto – and private collections, with ample space given to his Roman production, as evidenced by the works for the 1911 International Exhibition in Rome, formerly owned by the Museum of Rome, and a selection of 41 works from the donation.

The catalogue includes texts by Maria Elisa Tittoni, Sabrina Spinazzè, Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto, Federica Pirani and Laura Pagliani.

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Date: 18/10/2008

Period: 18 October 2008 – 11 January 2009

Event: Umberto Prencipe – Landscapes of the Soul

From 18 October 2008 to 11 January 2009, the exhibition Umberto Prencipe. Landscapes of the Soul. The Art Collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto, curated by Sabrina Spinazzè, was held in Orvieto, in the new exhibition galleries of Palazzo Coelli, home of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto.

The exhibition was organised to mark the donation by the artist’s daughter of 79 works (50 paintings, 17 drawings and 12 engravings), mainly focusing on his close and privileged relationship with the city of Orvieto and the surrounding countryside.

The event was accompanied by the presentation of the first monograph dedicated to the artist, curated by Sabrina Spinazzè and published by Orvieto Arte-Cultura-Sviluppo.

The exhibition Paesaggi dell’anima subsequently became a permanent exhibition, which can be visited in conjunction with events promoted by the Foundation or by appointment.

https://www.umbertoprencipe.it/associazione-archivio-umberto-prencipe.html