{"id":111705,"date":"2022-09-13T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/?p=111705"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:20:35","slug":"mario-mafais-piano-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Mafai&#8217;s Piano Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artists\/mario-mafai\/\">Mario Mafai<\/a> painted Piano Lesson in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>The child in the foreground is <strong>Miriam Mafai<\/strong>, the eldest daughter of Mario Mafai and <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artists\/antonietta-raphael\/\"><strong>Antonietta Rapha<em>\u00eb<\/em>l<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While living in London, <strong>Antonietta Raphael<\/strong> graduated as a pianist from the Royal Academy.<\/p>\n<p>She was convinced the piano would be her life, but unfortunately a mental block prevented her from playing in public.<\/p>\n<p>Antonietta continued to play 3-4 hours a day and taught piano to her daughters.<\/p>\n<p>The only one who reached a decent level was the eldest, Miriam.<\/p>\n<p>The woman in the pink dress is <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/product\/modern-art\/modern-work-on-paper-en\/antonietta-raphael-drawing\/\">Antonietta Raphael<\/a>, standing priest-like with her hands raised as if to mark time. The girl plays music by Scarlatti.<\/p>\n<p>What about the woman behind them? She was a model who had finished posing for Mafai and was getting dressed.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\" alt=\"Lezione di piano Mario Mafai\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lezione di piano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You have a work by Mario Mafai and you want to sell it?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Call us at +39 3356585431 or send us a message on WhatsApp at +39 3356585431<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>YOU CAN TRUST US<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The highest estimates, expertise, and reliability<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Mafai painted Piano Lesson in 1934. The child in the foreground is Miriam Mafai, the eldest daughter of Mario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":111074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1448],"tags":[5996,6360],"class_list":["post-111705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-en","tag-italian-art","tag-scuola-di-via-cavour-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mario Mafai&#039;s Piano Lesson - Egidi MadeinItaly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Piano Lesson painted by Mario Mafai, initiator of the Via Cavour School. Let&#039;s go inside the painting, shall we?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mario Mafai&#039;s Piano Lesson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mario Mafai painted Piano Lesson in 1934. The child in the foreground is Miriam Mafai, the eldest daughter of Mario Mafai and Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl. While\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Egidi MadeinItaly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/egidimadeinitaly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sabrina Egidi\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sabrina Egidi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac\"},\"headline\":\"Mario Mafai&#8217;s Piano Lesson\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/v25\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Italian Art\",\"Scuola di Via Cavour\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Magazine\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/\",\"name\":\"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson - Egidi MadeinItaly\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/v25\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac\"},\"description\":\"Piano Lesson painted by Mario Mafai, initiator of the Via Cavour School. Let's go inside the painting, shall we?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/v25\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/v25\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":576,\"caption\":\"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Magazine\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/category\\\/magazine-en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Mario Mafai&#8217;s Piano Lesson\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Egidi MadeinItaly\",\"description\":\"Fine Art\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/egidimadeinitaly.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac\",\"name\":\"Sabrina Egidi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sabrina Egidi\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson - Egidi MadeinItaly","description":"Piano Lesson painted by Mario Mafai, initiator of the Via Cavour School. Let's go inside the painting, shall we?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson","og_description":"Mario Mafai painted Piano Lesson in 1934. The child in the foreground is Miriam Mafai, the eldest daughter of Mario Mafai and Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl. While","og_url":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/","og_site_name":"Egidi MadeinItaly","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/egidimadeinitaly\/","article_published_time":"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sabrina Egidi","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/"},"author":{"name":"Sabrina Egidi","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac"},"headline":"Mario Mafai&#8217;s Piano Lesson","datePublished":"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/"},"wordCount":179,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg","keywords":["Italian Art","Scuola di Via Cavour"],"articleSection":["Magazine"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/","url":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/","name":"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson - Egidi MadeinItaly","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg","datePublished":"2022-09-13T06:31:42+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-30T13:20:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac"},"description":"Piano Lesson painted by Mario Mafai, initiator of the Via Cavour School. Let's go inside the painting, shall we?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lezione-di-piano-Mafai-Mario-scaled-e1669894181576.jpeg","width":1024,"height":576,"caption":"Mario Mafai's Piano Lesson"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/mario-mafais-piano-lesson\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Magazine","item":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/category\/magazine-en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Mario Mafai&#8217;s Piano Lesson"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/","name":"Egidi MadeinItaly","description":"Fine Art","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/6723cc7bd1bded901c15c844a8ad09ac","name":"Sabrina Egidi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a40fdbc55bf918bb816497bc3c90e4c5c27f15a4085cd750f2c78f47ae05c7d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sabrina Egidi"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125905,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111705\/revisions\/125905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}