At the suggestion of Gio Ponti, Luigi Fontana began to devote part of his activity to the creation of furniture and objets d'art.

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

Francesco Ferraresi was born in Rome in February 1858, where he lived and died in Via Margutta 33.

Twentieth-century painter and illustrator active between Naples and the European art scene, known for intimate subjects and a refined sensitivity to light.

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.

He became wealthy and spent much of his fortune on tapestries, carpets, precious leathers, musical instruments, furniture, weapons, and bronzes.

His technique combines painting and drawing with sand, and the themes of his works range from architecture to everyday life.

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

Gabriele Smargiassi learned the technique of landscape painting under the guidance of painter Anton Sminck van Pitloo

This blossomed into the Neoliberty movement, which Aulenti took up in opposition to rationalism.