Rome

Busy street in Rome

On this busy street in Rome, near the Piazza Barberini, the dark building in the center is the former site of the Galleria Futurista di Giuseppe Sprovieiri, which opened on December 6, 1913. Sprovieri held the First Free Futurist International Exhibition in February and March of 1914. Loy showed four paintings that included 3 portraits of Marinetti and a painting entitled a “dynamism of the subconscious” (Burke 166).