Achille Capizzano Collection

This section documents an artistic journey undertaken during the 1930s and 1950s by Achille Capizzano, who was born in Rende in 1907, but who lived and left most of his production in Rome, where he died in 1951.

Collaborator of artists such as Ferruccio Ferrazzi and architects such as Luigi Moretti and Adalberto Libera, Capizzano won, together with Gentilini, Guerrini and Quaroni, the two competitions for the execution of a gigantic mosaic in the Central Hall of the Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e dei Congressi at E 42 (EUR, Rome).

The mosaic, entitled “The Empire”, was to be part of a series of decorations for the palace, assigned, among others, to Achille Funi, Afro Basaldella and Bruno Saetti.

Between 1934 and 1943, Capizzano had executed five large floor mosaics for the Foro Italico, together with Gino Severini, Angelo Canevari and Giulio Rosso. He was also a sought-after designer and decorator of rooms in private palaces and prestigious Roman hotels such as the Hotel Hassler and the Mediterraneo.

In 1954, a few years after his death, a personal room was dedicated to him at the XXVII International Venice Biennale.

In 2012, Capizzano's large painting "Assalto alla carovana" of almost six meters, made in 1946 for the Cinema Rivoli in Rome, was acquired through a donation by his children.