event
Friday 12 July 2019 9.00 PM - 10.30 PM
Collection
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
other upcoming events
6 Jan 2025 12.00 pm
guided toursGuido GuidiCol tempo, 1956-2024
6 Jan 2025 04.30 pm
MAXXI for familiesOggetti incredibili e come progettarli
14 Jan 2025 06.00 pm
lectureMongolian Buddhist Art and Zanabazarby Geshe Lharampa Javzandorj Dulamragchaa
14 Jan 2025 06.30 pm
lectureIn movimento: danza, coreografia, architetturawith Susanne Franco
15 Jan 2025 06.00 pm
talkAnalisi, distruzione e rinnovamentowith Monia Ben Hamouda
newsletter
subscribe to our newsletter and keep up to date with what’s going on at MAXXI
card myMAXXI
for those interested in exploring the present
Museum Piazza – free entrance until full capacity
10 individual seats reserved for myMAXXI card holders writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event
Matron and thief, civilizer and corruptor. There is no other city as “capital” as Rome.
An enormous centre of power in antiquity and then with the Catholic Church, no other city is as “capital” as Rome. And yet it was with a mediocre majority that on the 23rd of December 1870 the parliament of the unified Italy voted to transfer the capital from Florence, in accordance with the wishes of Cavour as well as Garibaldi and Mazzini. An “inevitable” capital, but one beset by caustic jealousies.
An ever-contrasting image: matron and thief, civilizer and corrupter. Poor planning decisions and voracious speculation, even on the part of the Vatican, clog the centre and segregate the tumultuous immigration. A capital misunderstood by the intellectuals, defended only by Gabriele D’Annunzio and later by Antonio Cederna. “A suk” according to Goffredo Parise, “death itself” for Mario Soldati. This is the on-going and tormented story of two centuries in which Rome has grown 15-fold. Ungovernable without special measures.
Introduction and moderation
Pietro Barrera Fondazione MAXXI Secretary General
Speakers
Vittorio Emiliani journalist and author
Fulvio Abbate author
In collaboration with Il Mulino