The village
is mentioned in the sources for the first time in 832. It belonged in the tenth
century to the Abbey of S. Cosimato and later to the Abbey of Subiaco
In the thirteenth
century it belonged to the Count Conrad of Antioch who added
"Corrado" to the name of the city
It is
famous for the beauty of women and it was a favorite destination of artists since
1875 including Adolfo De Carolis (1874/1928), Giulio Aristide Sartorio
(1860/1932), Ferruccio Ferrazzi (1891/1978), Angelo Zanelli (1879/1942), Luigi
Pirandello, his son the painter Fausto Pirandello (1899/1975) and the Austrian
Oskar Kokoschka (1886/1980)
It was
especially popular during the period between the two world wars but even today
there are more than 50 artists' studios
Piazza
delle Ville
Fountain
"Noah's Ark" by Arturo Martini (1889/1947)
To the left
small CHURCH OF St. PETER of the eleventh century
Mosaic
floor and original frescoes of the thirteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
century, including those in the first chapel on the left, the CHAPEL OF Sts.
COSMAS AND DAMIAN, by two anonymous peasant painters inspired by the now
disappeared frescoes of Piero della Francesca in the Stanza della Segnatura in the
Vatican and in the Chapel of Sts. Michael
and Peter in Chains in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
Municipal
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
In the PALAZZETTO
BRANCACCIO, the small palace of the Brancaccio family
It opened
in 1935 and it was reorganized in 1985 on two floors
It was
donated by Prince Marcantonio Brancaccio and completed in 2001
More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings by artists active here: Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900/72), Arturo Martini (1889/1947), Fausto Pirandello (1899/1975), the Spanish poet and also painter Rafael Alberti (1902/99), Ercole Drei (1886/1973), Adolfo De Carolis (1874/1928), Felice Carena (1879/1966), Consalvo Carelli (1818/1900), Aligi Sassu (1912/2000), Emilio Greco (1913/95), Emilio Vedova (1919/2006), Emanuele Cavalli (1904/81), Ivan Meštrović (1883/1962) and others
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