Una curatela di Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager presso Galerie Lo Scalo – Rome, the "Eternal City" is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, embodying the profound themes of history, memory, and the constant layering of past and present. It is a city of symbolic dualities: monumental grandeur and everyday life, sacred ritual and secular chaos. The city's ruins and light evoke a strong psychological sense of timelessness and the persistent, enduring nature of human civilization. The city's views have been a tradition since the 18th-century vedutisti (view painters). Post-1950, artists engaged with Rome's contemporary reality. The painter Mario Schifano, a leading figure of Italian Pop Art, captured the fragmented, commercialized reality of modern Rome, often using iconic imagery and signs in his work. The world-famous photographer Gabriele Basilico, known for his architectural and urban documentation, captured Rome's structures with a stark, objective clarity, focusing on the city's complex urban fabric rather than its picturesque views. His work, which treats the city as a dynamic landscape, gives an essential modern perspective on the ancient capital. This collection explores Rome as a living archive of human experience.