In 1952, he joined the Gruppo degli Otto ("group of eight") with Emilio Vedova, Renato Birolli, Corpora, Moreni, Morlotti, Santomaso, and Turcato.

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. 

“The more I formalize a thing, the more I give it an independent life” by Angelo Mangiarotti

The biography of Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris 1795 -1875) a famous French sculptor of animals.

Antonio Donghi, painter of the Roman School and Magical Realism

Arthur Augustus Dixon was born in St. Pancras in 1872.

He was a truly great figure at the forefront of the revival of 20th-century sculpture. 

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.

Carlo Brancaccio specialized in landscape painting and especially sea landscapes

The Grue family, a great dynasty of ceramic artists

"He enjoyed observing peasants’ behavior and studied how they drank, ate, danced, fought, and even made love."

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.