Pieces designed by Carlo Bartoli are shown at the Milan Triennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stadtmuseum in Cologne, as well as in New York, Prague, Hong Kong, Athens, and Buenos Aires.
Over the years, Matteo Grassi has worked with an impressive array of designers, the likes of Carlo Bartoli, Piero Lissoni, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Poli, Eoos, Luigi Massoni, Jean Nouvel, Matteo Nunziati, Mauro Lipparini, and Rodolfo Dordoni.
Crepin also became one of the first and most admired official marine painters of the early 19th century, with an atelier within the Ministry of the Navy and Colonies in Paris.
The success of the Bongiovanni Vaccaro-workshop was a driving force for other craftsmen who, during the nineteenth Century, specialized in this particular subjects that were ‘the only singular and heartfelt manifestation of art that Caltagirone ceramics offers us in the second half of the XIX century’
Luigi Lanzi called him “…universal painter, very speedy in his work, ferocious in his inventions…” in History of painting in Italy from the Risorgimento of the Fine Arts until the late 18th century]
Umberto Giunti (1886–1970) a student and follower of Icilio Federico Joni was a key player in the surge in forgeries around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Meret Oppenheim did not like to be identified as an exponent of a particular artistic strand, although her name was always linked to the current of surrealism.
Each sunset is a day in our past lives that will never return. And at every sunset I ask myself: "What good have you done today, Antoniette?" Antonietta Raphaël
The Arpia, the Sirena, the Ermafrodito: his main works from his early Roman period represent mythological monsters that offer a colourful and baroque variation
Together with Arturo Martini, Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzù, Francesco Messina is considered one of the greatest exponents of 20th century figurative sculpture.
His work is part of the Minimalist Movement, focused on the essential quality of monochrome applied to the wood, marble and metal sculptures, aiming to reconfigure light and color in the environment where it is set.
Man Ray painter, maker of objects and a creator of avant-garde films, best known as a Surrealist photographer he took his first major photographs in 1918.
An Arts Council memorial exhibition was held in 1966 and more recently a major retrospective was held at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds in 1994.
British sculptor
He exhibited at the first New Front of the Arts exhibition at the Galleria della Spiga in Milan with the artists Emilio Vedova, Renato Guttuso, Pizzinato, Nino Franchina and GiulioTurcato.