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ITALY / Rovereto: Margherita Sarfatti
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until Sunday February 24 2019

MART di Trento e Rovereto
Corso Bettini 43
38068 Rovereto
Italy



Journalist, critic and promoter of Italian art between the wars, Margherita Sarfatti (1880 - 1961) was a shining light on the international panorama of the 20th century on account of her culture, talent and ambition. Her birth into a wealthy Jewish family, her education with illustrious tutors and her strong personality all shaped the figure of a cultured and passionate, but also complex and controversial woman.
A friend to intellectuals and artists, a socialist and then a supporter of the Fascist régime, she associated herself with the Novecento Italiano group, the initial formation of which she oversaw and which she promoted with tenacity from 1924 onwards, going beyond the national confines. Those were the years of the Return to Order and the recovery of the artistic tradition, which Sarfatti interpreted, coining the famous definition of “modern classicism”.

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