Giulia Napoleone's Blue Obsession at Richard Saltoun Rome

Richard Saltoun Gallery's Rome outpost on Via Margutta is hosting a solo exhibition of Giulia Napoleone (born 1936, Pescara), featuring around thirty works—oils and works on paper—all exploring the color blue. The artist, trained at Rome's Accademia di Belle Arti under Mino Maccari and Lino Bianchi Barriviera in the late 1950s, was introduced to the gallery by engraver Guido Strazza, who recalled their experimental years at the Calcografia. Napoleone's practice also draws on music and poetry, creating a synesthetic plastic vision. The exhibition captures blue's vibrations and light through elegant, predatory geometries, offering a cool, fluctuating monochrome that masks an ancestral nostalgia for the ineffable.