What is Porta Romana (Boccioni)?
{{Infobox painting | image=Umberto boccioni, officine a porta romana, 1910, 03.JPG | alt=See adjacent text. | image_size=250px | title=Porta Romana district in Milano | italic title=yes | other_language_1=Italian | other_title_1=Officine a Porta Romana | other_language_2=French | other_title_2= Porta Romana à Milan | artist=[[Umberto Boccioni]] | year=c. 1909-1910 | type=[[Oil painting|Oil]] on [[Populus|poplar]] | imperial_unit = in <!-- Note: this parameter must either use the value given or not be included --> | height_imperial=145 | width_imperial=75 | city=[[Milano]] | museum=[[Gallerie di Piazza Scala]]}} '''''The Porta Romana''''' (also known as '''''Workshop of Porta Romana in Milano''''') is a 20th-century [[portrait]] [[painting|painted]] in [[oil painting|oil]] by [[Umberto Boccioni]], made around 1909-1910 in Milan in Via Adige, near Porta Vigentina, during the [[Futurism]] in [[Milano]], [[Italy]], exhibited at the [[Gallerie di Piazza Scala]]. == Description == The work is created by Boccioni in his apartment in Via Adige at number 23 in Milan, near the door [[Porta Romana (Milan)|Porta Romana]] - Vigentina, near the Museum [[Fondazione Prada]], while looking from the window. Today the neighborhood is identified with innovative luxury fashion and art. The Palazzo displays a plaque in memory of the painter Boccioni on the outside. Today these urban area is the youngest and most innovative in Milan and can be compared to the [[Upper East Side]] of New York. == History == Boccioni was inspired by his window from which he also created the work [[The Street Enters the House (Boccioni)|The Street Enters the House]] and [[Mater (Boccioni)|Mater]]. == Related pages == * [[Twilight at Porta Romana (Boccioni)]] * [[Porta Romana (Milan)]] * [[Mater (Boccioni)]] * [[The Street Enters the House (Boccioni)]] == Bibliography == * Omar Calabrese - Vittorio Giudici, Art dall'Ottocento a oggi, Mondadori Education, 2012 ==Other websites== * ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxeYXKoFoeI Pittori del'900- U