Roma women, 1957, Sweden.
La Tribuna. 1897. Giovanni Mataloni.
54 5/8 x 79 in./138.3 x 207 cm
La Tribuna, personified, bends over the shadowed Earth, about to inscribe upon the new day with a quill. From her tapestried dress, we gaze upward to her feather-winged headdress – as if Mercury’s winged sandals had become Shakespeare’s “wings of imagination and speed of thought.” A superb work of art, right down to the typography, features imagery and chiaroscuro familiar to fans of Metlicovitz and Dudovich. But Mataloni preceded both of those colleagues at Ricordi, where he arrived in 1890. Mataloni’s famous Brevetto Auer poster brought Art Nouveau to Italy in 1895; this magnificent piece returns us to the Italian Renaissance.
Available at auction October 22, 2017. Learn more >>>
La Tribuna. 1897. Giovanni Mataloni.
54 5/8 x 79 in./138.3 x 207 cm
La Tribuna, personified, bends over the shadowed Earth, about to inscribe upon the new day with a quill. From her tapestried dress, we gaze upward to her feather-winged headdress – as if Mercury’s winged sandals had become Shakespeare’s “wings of imagination and speed of thought.” A superb work of art, right down to the typography, features imagery and chiaroscuro familiar to fans of Metlicovitz and Dudovich. But Mataloni preceded both of those colleagues at Ricordi, where he arrived in 1890. Mataloni’s famous Brevetto Auer poster brought Art Nouveau to Italy in 1895; this magnificent piece returns us to the Italian Renaissance.
Available at auction October 22, 2017. Learn more >>>