La Tribuna

La Tribuna  is a colored lithographed manifesto on cardboard realized around 1897 by the Italian artist  Gio vanni Mataloni .

Printed by Officine Ricordi, Milan, this advertising poster for the Italian newspaper  La Tribuna  is monogrammed and signed on plate on the lower left margin and is very well-inked.

This modern artwork has the following inscriptions printed on the lower margin, below the image: " G. Mataloni / Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 140 x 220 ". In excellent conditions, except for a little rip of the paper on the lower right corner. These defects do not affect the overall beauty of the image.

This original print shows the vintage Art Nouveau taste of the time and Mataloni's outstanding draftsmanship. A beautiful object of art to show off in your fashionable and sophisticated home decor!

Giovanni Maria Mataloni (Rome, 1869 - 1944)

We know little about the life of the Italian publicist and illustrator Giovanni Maria Mataloni . Even on his name there are some discrepancies: some sources report Giovanni Mario Mataloni, others Giovanni Maria Mataloni.

We certainly know that his paternal family owned several paper mills in the area of Pioraco, in the province of Macerata. Mataloni is an exponent of the  Liberty style  and, together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, and Marcello Dudovich, he is considered one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art . His first manifesto is dated 1891. He has collaborated with Ricordi, De Agostini, the editions of Dr. Chappuis of Bologna, the publisher Bocca di Torino, L'Illustrazione Italiana and the Cromolitographic Establishment Alessandro Marzi in Rome. He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and among his students there was Umberto Boccioni.