Lino Bianchi Barrivera, Biet Gabriel - Rafael, Etching 1920s-1930s
SILVER Seller in Roma, Italia
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Biet Gabriel - Rafael is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in the 1930s.Black and white etching.Signed on plate.Plate n.31 (as reported on the higher margin).The artwork is from the series "The monolithic churches of Lalibelà and others in Ethiopia". As reported on the artwork "Drawings, engravings by Lino Bianchi Barrivera from the relief by Elio Zacchia (1939-1947)"Between 1938 and 1939 Lino Bianchi Barriviera participated in a study mission to Ethiopia commissioned by Duke Amedeo of Aosta, from which he made several engravings.Good conditions except some foxings.Lino Bianchi Barriviera (Barriviera is the maternal surname that he added to the paternal one in 1933), artist, painter and etcher, was born in Montebelluna (Treviso) in 1906 and died in Acilia (Rome) in 1985. After the first years of his youth, he lived in Venice and Florence, settled finally in Rome in 1935, and at the end of the 70’s moved to Acilia. The fame of the artist is mainly linked to his large production, more than 950 plates, for which he mostly used etchings but also experimented with several other techniques; it has also to be noted that he performed masterfully in other forms of arts, first of all the oil painting, and then wall frescoes and tempera decorations, wood-carving, stained-glass windows, mosaics, ceramics, embossing, stamp engravings and jewel making.
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