San Giovanni and Minerva Temple

San Giovanni and Minerva Temple is an original china ink and watercolor on cardboard,
realized by Aleardo Terzi in 1899 . 

Hand-signed   A. Terzi in china ink on the lower left corner in the image box with San Giovanni interior.

Good condition.  

Reference:

Niccolò D'Agati, A leardo Terzi / Una inedita serie postale ed altri lavori giovanili  (in Aa.Vv.  CONI D'OMBRA /Arte a Roma 1900-1940 ), Roma 2019, pp. 113-124-125.

Beautiful, realistic and refined work representing two boxes with two important place in the heart of Rome: San Giovanni Church and Minerva Medica Temple. Both the boxes are realized of a different sheet and then applied of the decorated support. Both the boxes are rounded by a stylized frame. 

The work has been realized by the Italian illustrator and artist Aleardo Terzi (Palermo, 1870 - Castelletto sopra Ticino, 1943). Terzi was born in a good family: his father Andrea was an important illustrator and, his mother Rose Engel, was born in a family close to the library factory. His brother Amedeo will became a drawer and will collaborate with Aleardo in some periods of his career. Aleardo attender the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo that abandoned to collaborate with "La Tribuna Illustrata, an illustrated review. During this period he started to refine his graphic style where appear for the first time the feminine figure. In 1898 he moved to Milan, invited by his friend Mataloni, and began working at Officine Ricordi, where he met the most important advertising poster designers such as Adolfo Hohenstei and Marcello Dudovich. In 1904 he was nominated director and drawer at Danesi (Rome). Since 1911 he began the important collaboration with the publisher Edoardo Chappuis (Boulogne). During this period he also decorated majolicas for Richard-Ginori and realized scenographies and costume for the Theatre. 

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