Mario Sironi, The Justice
Mario Sironi (Sassari 1885 – Milan 1961) Justice. Studio per il mosaico Justice flanked by the Law, bearing the tables written, and by a youthful figure, a symbol of strength, bearing the Beam with Truth in the courtroom Of the First Section of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the Milan Palace of Justice, 1936-39 […]
Arrigo Minerbi, Maternity
Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara 1881 – Padua 1960) Maternity (cast of relief for the Istituti Clinici Mangiagalli, Milan), 1930 Plaster, 172 x 187 x 32 cm Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 6106 The partnership between politics and art promoted by Fascism to strengthen its consensus culminated in the 1930s with the great […]
Arrigo Minerbi Weeping Flower
Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara 1881 – Padua 1960) The weeping of the flower (cast from the Radaelli tomb, Milan Monumental Cemetery), 1922 Plaster, 167 x 67.5 x 17 cm Ferrara, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 1000 After training at the civic art school in Ferrara, Minerbi moved to Florence, where […]
Achille Funi My Sister
Achille Funi (Ferrara 1890 – Appiano Gentile 1972) Portrait of sister, 1921 Oil on panel, 49.5 x 39.5 cm Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 0671 My sister, c. 1921 Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 44.5 cm Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 0674 Achille Funi’s […]
Filippo de Pisis, Portrait of Allegro
Filippo de Pisis(Ferrara 1896 – Milan 1956)Portrait of Allegro, 1940Oil on cardboard glued on board, 71 x 61 cm Filippo de Pisis Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Donation Franca Fenga Malabotta, inv. 2771 When he left for Italy in July 1939, De Pisis did not imagine that the outbreak of World War II would […]
Filippo de Pisis, Road to Paris
Filippo de Pisis (Ferrara 1896 – Milan 1956) Paris Road, 1938 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 54.5 cm Filippo de Pisis Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Donation Giuseppe Pianori Foundation, inv. 642 Critic Francesco Arcangeli considered the second half of the 1930s the happiest period of De Pisis’s art. Indeed, the works of […]
Filippo de Pisis, The Fulminated Gladiolus
Filippo de Pisis (Ferrara 1896 – Milan 1956) The fulminate gladiolus, 1930 Oil on cardboard glued on board, 71.5 x 51 cm Filippo de Pisis Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Donation Franca Fenga Malabotta, inv. 2766 Settling in Paris, in 1925, De Pisis immersed himself in the study of the masterpieces of the […]
Filippo de Pisis, Still Life with the Kingfisher
Filippo de Pisis (Ferrara 1896 – Milan 1956) Still life with kingfisher, 1925 Oil on cardboard, 46 x 71.5 cm Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 640. Still life with kingfisher records Filippo de Pisis’ first steps toward the acquisition of his own pictorial language and the gradual loosening of […]
Aroldo Bonzagni, Flames in the Mediterranean
Aroldo Bonzagni Flames in the Mediterranean, 1914 (Cento 1887 – Milan 1918) Oil on canvas, 71 x 182 cm Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 0618 Born into a very modest family in the province of Ferrara, young Aroldo Bonzagni moved to Milan in 1903 to attend the Brera Academy, where […]
Roberto Melli, Self-Portrait
Roberto Melli (Ferrara 1885 – Rome 1958) Self-portrait, 1933 Oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis,” inv. 578 L’Self-portrait by Roberto Melli was purchased by the City of Ferrara in 1934 and is one of the first works of the twentieth century to enter the […]