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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
Luigi Angelini (Bergamo 1884 – 1969). Cortina d'Ampezzo Casa di Agostino Colle al museo, 1924. Graphite. Paper measurements: 160 x 240 mm. Engineer, architect, designer, restorer and collector. Architectural historian, active mainly in Bergamo and province with numerous urban reorganization works and construction and expansion projects for civil and religious buildings. Popularizer and publicist with around 642 titles, founder of the Society of Etchers of Bergamo in 1913. Detailed glimpse of a typical Ampezzo interior. Furnishings of a carved wooden room. The composition is conducted with a sign in parallel lines, more or less marked according to the needs of chiaroscuro, perhaps designed for an illustration. At the top left we read: Cortina d'Ampezzo/Agostino Colle's house/to the museum. Agostino Colle Codes, son of Luigi, designer, was a craftsman among the promoters in 1905 of the Elizabethan Museum of an ethnographic nature being established for the benefit of tourists and the community. The museum, dedicated to "our late Empress and Queen Elizabeth" asked the community for old people who could document life in the past in Cortina, but it had a short and troubled life. In 1923 it was dismantled to allocate the rooms to another use, the objects definitively dispersed in 1929 and only a small part is today in the Regole Museum. For a reconstruction of the story, see the Notiziario delle Regole d'Ampezzo, n. 34 of July 1995. Signature in pencil lower right: LA 1924/ 31 July. The drawing is therefore an interesting and rare document of the events of the unfortunate museum in 1924, which had already been moved from its original location. Fresh and well preserved sheet except for a restored tear and crease, mostly visible on the reverse. Bibliography: Sandro Angelini Luigi Gavazzeni, Travel drawings by Luigi Angelini, Bergamo, Poligrafie Bolis, 1982. Luigi Angelini engineer and architect, Electa, 1984. Price: €270.00.
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