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
He used a wide range of materials, three-dimensional objects, and organic substances like eggshells, mud, and straw to create highly unconventional, usually large-scale works.
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
He retained his English nationality, perhaps to protect himself against the encroachments of the Church-State, but he always remained in Rome, never going to England.
He took part in the 34th Venice Biennale in 1968, which was the year of great protest, with a room dedicated to him but he closed the room in support of the protests underway.
In Florence, he occasionally frequented Caffè Michelangiolo, a gathering place for Macchiaioli painters. He met the artists who influenced some of his works painted en plein air.
He was a Knight of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium, Honorary Professor of the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, and Honorary Academician of the Institute of Fine Arts of Bologna and other Academies.
He created some sixty posters with advertising or political subjects. These included the famous calendar for the Cooperative Union of Milan in 1917 and many theater bills and postcards.
In the house where Orazio Amato was born in Anticoli Corrado, among the ruins of the cellar that was one of Arturo Martini's studios in the 1920s, was found Arturo Martini's work "The Shepherd", now preserved in the Vatican Museums.
In January 1912 he obtained a pension from the Granada Provincial Council to live in Rome and perfect his techniques and skills as a landscape painter.
In 1900 he returned permanently to Naples, where in 1902 he assumed the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, formerly held by Palizzi, remaining there until his death.