The paintings
Two old-master works and four from the Futurist twentieth century: a small, chosen group in which flight — a family theme — returns in the aeropaintings of Pietro Ardigò.
The Virgin holds the Child, who turns towards the little Saint John with the cross; a landscape in the background. A panel attributable to the circle of Andrea del Sarto, perhaps the workshop or a pupil such as Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, still in the sixteenth century. Carved and gilded frame.
A gentleman in a wig and green dressing gown, with a lace jabot, before a red curtain open onto a landscape: the formal portrait of the Baroque age, in the tradition of English and Flemish portraitists.
Two biplanes banking through a rainbow: aeropainting, the Futurist chapter that celebrated flight. A theme dear to a family in which flying runs in the blood.
A formation of twin-engined aircraft flies over a coast dotted with red-roofed houses, cut by a rainbow. Companion to the "Aerial turn", with the same clear light and the same signature.
Three cyclists hurtling downhill, broken into yellow, red and blue rays of light: speed and dynamism in the Futurist grammar, in a panel of great chromatic energy.
Skyscrapers leaning as if in a gust, among painted words — "wind", "powerful", "city", "futurist" — in the manner of the parolibere panels. A small work in a rich gilded frame.