This exhibit aimed to inform the public about a generation of artists who were fellows at the Academia Española de Bellas Artes in Rome between 1923 and 1927. The group showed a profound creative cohesion, as well as an unalterable friendship during their most critical years, despite their apparently insurmountable ideological differences.

 

The exhibition selected works by 10 artists: painters Eugenio Lafuente Castell, Joaquín Valverde Lasarte, Timoteo Pérez Rubio and Pedro Pascual Escribano; architects Emilio Moya Lledós, Fernando García Mercadal and Adolfo Blanco y Alegre de Camino; musician Fernando Remacha y Villar, and sculptors Manuel Álvarez- Laviada and Vicente Beltrán Grimal. The exhibition showed paintings, sculptures, drawings, blueprints, models, music scores, manuscripts, periodicals and photographs —some never exhibited before. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes and the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, the Museo de Bellas Artes, Oviedo, the Real Academia de San Carlos de Valencia and the Archivo General de la Administración also contributed material.