Birth of Rome, 1964 (enamel and calico on canvas)

Birth of Rome (Natale di Roma), by Franco Angeli, 1964, 20th Century, enamel and calico on canvas, 155 x 200 cm Whole artwork view. Pictorial composition that reproduces the ancient bronze of the she-wolf nursing the infants Romulus and Remus, made with liquid brushstrokes on a black background, golden for the wolf and white for the pedestal; on the background is replicated several times the acronym SPQR, while on the base is shown the famous self-celebration sentence by Octavian Augustus ANNOS UNDEVIGINTI NATUS EXERCITUM PRIVATO CONSILIO ET PRIVATA IMPENSA COMPARAVI PER QUEM REM PUBLICAM A DOMINATIONE POETIA OPPRESSAM IN LIBERTATEM National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art-GNAM