Description
Edizioni Comune di Malesco, 2002. Paperback with French flaps, 112 pp.; 24 cm; text in Italian; illustrated with color and black-and-white plates, many full-page. Introduction by Maria Serena Pilone.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated covers reproducing Luigi Sotta's Allegoria della pittura on front, plain black rear panel; mild shelf and edge wear; 1-inch blue pen mark at top edge of front cover; light surface scuffing to glossy black rear cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. First catalogue of the work of the Sotta, a family of some fifteen painters from Malesco in the Val Vigezzo, Piedmont, active from the late eighteenth century into the late nineteenth. Founder Francesco Maria Sotta (b. 1764), a portraitist trained in the French manner, taught drawing in Saintes and Nantes; his sons Carlo Giuseppe, Luigi and Gioacchino worked as painters and teachers in Paris, Rome, New Orleans and Saint Petersburg as well as at home. Gnemmi traces the family's portraiture, devotional copies and church commissions through Pietro Antonio Sotta and his son Giuseppe Antonio, the last of the line. Plates include portraits of Vigezzo notables and family members, Luigi Sotta's Crucifixion, the Madonna di Re and other works for the churches of Malesco, and Pietro Antonio's landscapes. Published by the Comune di Malesco with the Parco Nazionale della Val Grande for the 2002 Pollini centenary; printed in Villadossola in June 2002. Contents: Premessa; Tra tradizione e aggiornamento artistico; Francesco Maria e Carlo Giuseppe Sotta; Luigi e Gioacchino Sotta; Pietro Antonio Sotta; Opere per le chiese di Malesco; Giacomo Antonio Sotta di Carlo Giuseppe e Giovanni Antonio Sotta; Conclusione; Note; Bibliografia; Documentazione fotografica