Olevano Romano
Encyclopedia
Olevano Romano is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Rome
in the Italian
region Latium
, located about 45 km east of Rome
.
It is the probable birthplace of the composer Giovanni Gentile
.
Olevano has a cultural tradition from the past – initiated around 1800 Olevano has had an important role in landscape painting in European art, in particular in the 19th century. Artists from almost all European countries as well as American artists visited and worked in Olevano, and today you will find paintings depicting Olevano, its surrounding landscape and the neighbouring towns in many of the important museums all over Europe.
Today the art museum in Olevano Romano exhibits works from its collection as well as organises thematic exhibitions. In the museum in Olevano Romano, you meet both classic and contemporary art, with works of Italian and European artists.
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Rome
Province of Rome
The Province of Rome , is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by rural landscape.-Geography:The Province of Rome...
in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
region Latium
Latium
Lazio is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country. With about 5.7 million residents and a GDP of more than 170 billion euros, Lazio is the third most populated and the second richest region of Italy...
, located about 45 km east of Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
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It is the probable birthplace of the composer Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile (composer)
Giovanni Gentile was an Italian composer and music teacher.- Life and works :Two sources survive for his life and works : his only surviving work, a teaching-collection of music entitled Solfeggiamenti et ricercari a due voci ; and the inventory of printed works in the workshop of the Roman...
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Olevano has a cultural tradition from the past – initiated around 1800 Olevano has had an important role in landscape painting in European art, in particular in the 19th century. Artists from almost all European countries as well as American artists visited and worked in Olevano, and today you will find paintings depicting Olevano, its surrounding landscape and the neighbouring towns in many of the important museums all over Europe.
Today the art museum in Olevano Romano exhibits works from its collection as well as organises thematic exhibitions. In the museum in Olevano Romano, you meet both classic and contemporary art, with works of Italian and European artists.