Achille Castiglioni was an ambassador of Italian design in the world and won nine Compassi d'Oro awards.

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

From Marino Marini, he learned to appreciate sculpture and bronze's infinite possibilities.

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 1867, he achieved his first great success at the Paris Salon, where some of his works were purchased by Napoleon III.

“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.

Calcagnadoro's artistic oeuvre is characterized by a prolific and uninterrupted production of easel paintings in oil and watercolor.

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

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’

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