Elisabetta Mayo d’Aloisio

Elisabetta Mayo D’Aloisio was born in Naples on 18 September 1896.

She was a sculptress and a writer, a pupil of Vincenzo Gemito and active in Rome.

In 1925, at the second Rome Biennale, she exhibited a ‘Giovinetta balzante’ (Leaping Youth) and in the 1930s, again in Rome, she made a monumental statue of the ‘March on Rome’ to be placed in Piazza di Siena.

The Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan contains a bronze portrait of Vincenzo Gemito, exhibited in Milan in 1932.

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.