Palazzo Merulana, home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, managed and enhanced by CoopCulture, is pleased to present Rome in Cinema Brushstrokes. The pictorial sketches of film posters, from "Rome, Open City" to "The Voice of the Moon," conceived and curated by Stefano Di Tommaso and Paolo Marinozz.

On the occasion of the Rome Film Festival, with the contribution of SIAE, Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, the exhibition, in which Rome with its cinematic visions is the absolute protagonist, includes 50 original pictorial sketches, the work of great artists, created for the typographic printing of film posters. They were created by the most renowned and important artists in the field, true "dream designers" such as Ballester, Capitani, Martinati, Brini, Nano, Manfredo, De Seta, Manno, Olivetti, Cesselon, Geleng, Ciriello, up to their latest disciples like Symeoni, Nistri, Iaia, Putzu, Casaro, Avelli, Biffignandi, Gasparri, who together represented a true artistic movement of the 20th century and worked for the biggest American studios like Warner, MGM, Paramount, Columbia, and for the Italian ones Titanus, Lux, Ponti-De Laurentiis.

The exhibition aims to articulate a sort of "storytelling" for films and actors from the post-war period to today, of Rome as a film set. From the groundbreaking appearance of neorealism with Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D to the cinema myth through Magnani in Bellissima, to that of Gadda and Germi in An Angel for Satan (adapted from That Awful Mess on Via Merulana), from the Rome of Poor But Beautiful and of Big Deal on Madonna Street to the sub-proletarian one of Accattone and Mamma Roma.

The exhibition also aims to celebrate the anniversaries falling this year of four great figures of Italian and international cinema: the fiftieth anniversaries of the deaths of Vittorio De Sica and Pietro Germi, the centenary of the birth of Marcello Mastroianni, and the significant birthday of the greatest Italian diva, Sophia Loren.

The exhibition also pays tribute to two great cinema icons: Federico Fellini, who shot his films in the legendary Studio 5 of Cinecittà, and Alberto Sordi, a symbol of the Capital of which he was Mayor for a day.