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’
Elisabetta Mayo D'Aloisio, a great painter and sculptor, together with her husband Carlo D'Aloisio da Vasto, formed one of the most important artistic combinations of the Italian avant-garde movements of the 20th century.
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
In Rome he spent time with Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Antonio Mancini, Armando Spadini, and Felice Carena, who gave him significant stimuli to help him improve.
Enrico Crespi painted portraits of Manzoni, Francesco Hayez, Vittorio Emanuele II, Queen Margherita, Princess Maria Gonzaga, Mrs. Cavajani, and the banker Weilschott.
In the mid-1930s, Fausto Pirandello reached a new maturity as an artist. He married the tonalism of the Roman School with an entirely personal approach to the figure