Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

" VILLA ABBANDONATA "
BY ONORATO CARLANDI

ROME—The Palazzo delle Belle Arti
in the Via Nazionale was during the
war used for military stores, but has now
been restored to art, and this spring its
fine galleries were occupied with the
Biennial Exhibition, the first of a series
which promises to be of great interest.
The exhibition comprised, besides the
so-called " Cerebrali," a very attractive
retrospective display of the work of
Morelli, N. Cotta, Galli, Segantini and
others; and among the moderns that
veteran of water-colour art, Professor
Onorato Carlandi, was well represented.
Among his paintings were the beautiful

Villa Abbandonata with its great cypress
trees which the artist painted last summer
when staying at Rocca di Papa, over-
looking the Roman Campagna, the Beata
Solitudo, showing the Convent of Palarrolo,
and Elegia, with a wide sweep of sky,
splendidly handled, over Ostia. This
last painting has been acquired by the
City of Rome for the Capitol Gallery.

Professor Carlandi is well known in
England, where he lived in 1880 and later,
and has often exhibited there with success.
Only this summer he has been holding a
well-selected exhibition of water-colours
at Walker's Galleries in New Bond Street.

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