Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art
Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art was born from the merger of two historic galleries that have been active on the market for several generations. It specializes in paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. From the leading figures of Neoclassicism to en plein air landscape painting, from the dreamlike atmospheres of the Symbolist period to the suspended settings of Magic Realism, the gallery pays particular attention to Italian and Northern European artists.
Our role in shaping a city’s artistic landscape is anything but secondary: we are often a quiet yet decisive driving force. A gallery is not merely an exhibition space, but a place of research and selection. We do not simply follow the market; we help guide it, maintaining a balance between research and sustainability.
In Rome, this role has a particular specificity: the weight of history imposes a constant dialogue with the past. Here, so-called “modern” art cannot ignore the past; it must engage with it.
Perhaps one of our challenges will lie in striking a balance between rigor and renewal. […] Expanding the audience without simplifying the content, while navigating an increasingly global and competitive market. In this context, the real challenge will be to stand out not only for what is exhibited, but for how it is told.
Perhaps one of our challenges will lie in striking a balance between rigor and renewal. On the one hand, there is the need to maintain the highest standards of authenticity, provenance, and quality; on the other, the ability to make nineteenth- and twentieth-century art relevant to new generations of collectors. Expanding the audience without simplifying the content, while also navigating an increasingly global and competitive market. In this context, the real challenge will be to stand out not only for what is exhibited, but for how it is told.
Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art was born from the merger of two historic galleries, one Roman and one Florentine, both with a long tradition in the field of antiques and art.
The gallery is located in the heart of Rome, within a charming private courtyard at Via Margutta 54, in what is known as “the street of art.” This means inhabiting a living continuity between past and present: here, the gallery is not merely an exhibition space, but part of a tradition that makes a daily encounter with art feel natural. All around, among workshops and still-active studios, one breathes an authentic and working dimension, in which artistic practice is not only displayed, but lived every day.
Within the elegant exhibition space, spread over two floors, the different sensibilities that define the style of the two owners — Francesca Antonacci and Damiano Lapiccirella — come together.
Francesca Antonacci: “Damiano and I both come from art dealers’ families, though shaped by different teachings. What we share is that we grew up surrounded by beauty and art, watching in our fathers the emotion of a purchase, the wonder of discovering an object or a painting. We will continue to work in this way, following our instinct and letting ourselves be guided by the values of beauty, quality, and rarity.”
Damiano Lapiccirella: “An antique dealer is born a collector, born with the desire to possess. We acquire what moves us, what we ourselves would wish to own, what we would know how to describe in terms of its intensity, its historical and artistic importance, and its quality.”
