El artista en Italia

The Museo Nacional del Romanticismo, in its Encuentro room, shows the public what artistic training journeys to Italy were like in the mid-nineteenth century, when the…

The display brings together drawings by Federico de Madrazo, Luis de Madrazo and Vicente Palmaroli, drawn from the museum's own collections, to explain how artists who travelled to Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century were trained. It is presented in the Encuentro room of the Museo del Romanticismo, a Madrid institution dedicated to this period.

The works document the study of ancient Roman art, the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with references to masters such as Michelangelo, Raphael or Giotto, who served as models for the young artists. This is a stage prior to the creation of the Academia de España in Rome, when learning depended on other channels.

Another part of the route focuses on Italian popular types, highly prized at the time for their picturesque and costumbrista character. Drawings of models in traditional dress, as well as of country women who came to Rome to sell their produce and posed mostly near the Piazza di Spagna, reflect this outlook, which spread thanks to collections of prints.