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.

"With De Pisis, one could say that painting wants to invite us to witness its own destruction."

Andrea Tessier provides a comprehensive list of works that the artist painted both for noble Venetian patrons and foreign ones.

He gained fame as a Romantic after exhibiting his first historical painting, "Pietro Rossi, prisoner of the Scaligeri at Pontremoli" in Milan in 1820.

Together with Arturo Martini, Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzù, Francesco Messina is considered one of the greatest exponents of 20th century figurative sculpture.

Francesco Paolo Michetti, (Tocco di Casauria 1851 - Francavilla 1929), was one of the most important Italian artists at the turn of the 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

Gérard Diaz

These works met with international success. His colors are especially reflective of his style though influenced by those of the Roman School.

In 1960 in Venice,Guy Harloff was among the participants in the event L'Enterrement de la Chose de Tinguely, at the Palazzo Contarini Corfu in Venice.

Jean Metzinger was one of the founders of cubism with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

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.