From the Studio. Lola Mora and Rome: About Masters, Proyects and Royal Visits

Abstract

Lola Mora had a very close relationship with Italy because with her first italian teacher Santiago Falcucci, who lived in San Miguel de Tucuman, learned to love the art. She will travel to Rome to study with Francesco Paolo Michetti in 1897. This first phase of the training will take an interest in sculpture and will be Costantino Barbella and the prestigious Giulio Monteverde which accompany that path. Italy will provide a background of images that turn into a thin receiving the old world and the sculpture of the nineteenth century. From her workshop traveled to Buenos Aires numerous pieces of marble for various cities. Testimonies to rebuild its roman social and artistic environment are few but here we must begin to make a sketch of contacts through some actors who knew: Ambassador Moreno, the Queens of Italy, the writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, among others.