Diversions

A Meandering Journey through the World of Art

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: The General's Coat, Pt. 1

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"General Mark Clark" by Pietro Annigoni "About ten years after the war, when I was painting Queen Elizabeth, I read an articl...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: The German Occupation

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  Drawings by Annigoni for "Destruzioni di Firenze" "Like all Italian anti-fascists in the years immediately before the Secon...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: First Frescoes

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Pietro Annigoni's fresco at the convent of San Marco "The year 1937 was an important one for me. I began my first important work in...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: Oil Tempera

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"Mrs. Woolfson" by Pietro Annigoni "I confess that I was myself more concerned with my work than with the fate of Italy at th...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: Paris and Salzburg

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St. Wolfgang Altarpiece by Michael Pacher "In 1935 I had a very successful one-man show, my second, at the Galleria Botti. The critics ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: Critics and the Public

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"Self-Portrait" by Pietro Annigoni "In those early days I was a 'young man mad about drawing.' Indeed by 1950 I had m...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Pietro Annigoni: Francesco Bartoli

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Drawing by Pietro Annigoni "In 1923 my father sent me to Milan's famous Calchi-Taeggi College, where I lived a sort of double life....
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