School of Rome. Umbrella term for the artists based in Rome, or having close links with it, in the 1920s and 1930s. Like the School of Paris the term embraces a wide variety of types of art. However, a return to classicism was a dominant current (see also return to order). Major artists include De Chirico, Balla, Guttuso, Martini, Pirandello, Severini.