Resumen de Per la "Prima Mostra Jonica di Arte Sacra" del 1937 a Taranto: i documenti, le cronache, le immagini di una rassegna dimenticata
During the fascist era, several cities sponsored exhibitions of old masters to promote Mussolini's prpaganda around the concepts of history and Italian idantity. In the sphere, Taranto had its own exhibition, too, called the Prima Mostra Jonica d'Arte Sacra (1937): although the exhibition gathered copious works of art -especially seventeenth-eighteenth century paintings from churches- for the first (and last) time in that area, no studies have been dedicated to this event.
The essay aims to recreate the context, the preeminent figures, the ambitions, the gaps and the results of the project through documents, newspapers, and vintage photogrphs; it also tries to analyze the reasons around this long-lasting oblivion that has relegated the Prima Mostra d'Arte Sacra onto the borders of the wider phenomenon of the so-called "mostre regionali".
