Via Roma, painters and photographers from the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

Italy in the early 19th century, and more specifically Rome, was an essential destination for many European painters. This artistic abundance encouraged the development of innovative artistic movements and the renewal of traditional pictorial genres such as landscape. This work thus outlines the beginnings of this revival and shows the richness and diversity of styles, the sources of inspiration for painters at this time, from landscapes to genre scenes, from Nazarenes to architectural views. The works of German painters, mostly from the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, founder of the Neue Pinakothek, are presented alongside those of the Aix painter François-Marius Granet, also present in Rome from 1802 and fascinated by the city and its surrounding landscapes. Italy also inspires photographers. Like painting, from the 1840s onwards, photography developed in Rome, a privileged place for these new genre of artists who discovered and experimented with this new medium and then formed the "scuola romana di fotografia". The Neue Pinakothek has a magnificent collection of more than 10,000 photographs of 19th-century Italy from the prestigious Dietmar Siegert collection. Thus, a selection of these photographs will also interact with some thirty graphic works, oil sketches and drawings by François-Marius Granet. Grouped by emblematic sites, they show the diversity of perspectives on these places, from famous squares to the Villa Medici, from the Quirinal to the Colosseum, from views of the Tiber to the Vatican...