Presentation of the volumes “Gli Spazzi. Una lunga dinastia di artisti 1380-1936” e “Mario Salazzari. Opere pubbliche e per la memoria”

Thursday 19 December at 5.30 pm in the Sala Farinati of the Civic Library will be presented “Gli Spazzi. Una lunga dinastia di artisti 1380-1936” and “Mario Salazzari. Opere pubbliche e per la memoria”. The two monographic volumes will enrich the series dedicated to the sculptors active in the Monumental Cemetery of Verona, in which the reasoned catalog of the works of Ruperto Banterle was published last June.

“Gli Spazzi. Una lunga dinastia di artisti 1380-1936”, of which she is the author Camilla Bertoni, tells the human and artistic vicissitudes of the Spazzi family, originally from the Val d’Intelvi of Como and active in Verona from the beginning of the nineteenth century until 1936. In particular, Giovanni, Grazioso, Attilio and Carlo Spazzi were among the protagonists of the city’s artistic history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and authors of many works in the Venetian capital and in the Monumental Cemetery of Verona.

Edited by Camilla Bertoni and with the contributions of Maddalena Basso and Gabriella Bologna, “Mario Salazzari. Opere pubbliche e per la memoria” focuses on the life of the artist from Lugagnano di Sona. Author of numerous monuments to the fallen in Verona and the province and works related to the celebration of the dead within the Monumental Cemetery of Verona, Mario Salazzari was a multifaceted artist and also devoted himself to small-scale sculptural production, drawing, painting and to poetry.

Speakers include:

• Alessandra Tiddia, art historian
• Patrizia Nuzzo, Curator in charge of the Modern Art Gallery “Achille Forti” of Verona
• Camilla Bertoni, author and editor of the volumes
• Maddalena Basso and Gabriella Bologna, authors of the volumes

The initiative will be free.