Palazzo Altemps dedicates an exhibition to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury neighborhood

From October 19, 2022 to February 12, 2023, the National Roman Museum, at its Palazzo Altemps venue, presents the exhibition Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. Inventing life, curated by Nadia Fusini and organized by the National Roman Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London in collaboration with Electa.

Bloomsbury was the neighborhood to which the Stephen orphans (Virginia, Vanessa, Thoby and Adrian) moved in 1904: from the upscale neighborhood of Kensington to the infamous number 46 Gordon Square. Every Thursday after dinner, the house filled with young people. They were Thoby’s friends from Cambridge: Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf... Special people, original, eccentric, with a great desire to live differently from their fathers. Young people full of flair and inventiveness and irony. Whether it was beauty, or goodness, or truth, the energies were focused on the meaning of the word. Everyone was trying to grasp the concept, to fix the idea. Bloomsbury was this: the invention of a new life. This is the spirit that the review intends to retrace; the exhibition will bring to the forefront the primal soul of Palazzo Altemps, which began as a noble house in the heart of Rome.

According to the announcement, the selected works will tell that Bloomsbury is undoubtedly a revolution of the mind. And if Virginia Woolf was the writer we know, it is because she had the courage to reassert her freedom. This courage was nurtured and grew in the atmosphere of research and moral sincerity of the group of young friends who were discussing the nature of the good and the beautiful.

Palazzo Altemps dedicates an exhibition to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury neighborhood

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