| BENVENUTO DISERTORI (Trento 1887 - Milan 1969) TORRI DI SAN GIMINIANO (View of Towers in San Giminiano) Etching and engraving; 1917. Bellini - Alberti 23. Fine impression of the second state of two, printed in black ink on laid paper with watermark 'ROMA' with the Capitoline she-wolf. With full margins. A tear in the left margin, otherwise in very good condition. To the platemark 297 x 392 mm, the entire sheet measuring 487 x 677 mm. Signed in pen 'Benvenuto Disertori'. Benvenuto Disertori was taught at the Accademia in Venice by Guglielmo Ciardi. Thereafter he travelled widely. He was in Munich, Rome, Berlin, Florence and wandered over the provinces of central Italy. The small cities of Umbria and Tuscany: Fiesole, San Gimigniano, Gubbio, Perugia, awoke his love for poets and artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and here he found his vocations, devoting himself to engraving either in wood or in copper. Disertori was also a musicologist and a collector of musical instruments. |
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