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Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Masnago Castle verified

Varese, Lombardy, Italy open Visit museumarrow_right_alt

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Giacomo Balla - Little girl with flowers
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Francesco Hayez - Tamar of Judah
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Eleuterio Pagliano - The Prayer Book
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Giuseppe Molteni - Portrait of a Gentlewoman
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Vittorio Tavernari - Totem
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Giuseppe Bertini - Ophelia
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Vittorio Tavernari - Female torso and Christ
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Nino Cassani - Rotation
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Giancarlo Sangregorio - Human Footing
Giacomo Balla - Little girl with flowers
Francesco Hayez - Tamar of Judah
Eleuterio Pagliano - The Prayer Book
Giuseppe Molteni - Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Vittorio Tavernari - Totem
Giuseppe Bertini - Ophelia
Vittorio Tavernari - Female torso and Christ
Nino Cassani - Rotation
Giancarlo Sangregorio - Human Footing

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Description

The painting became part of the Varese civic collections in 1977, thanks to the bequest of the notary Giuseppe Bonazzola. In the canvas, recorded in the inventory with the purely descriptive title of Woman reading, it is in all probability to be recognized The Prayer Book, a work that appeared at the posthumous exhibition of Eleuterio Pagliano, in whose catalog it appeared as belonging to the collection of Mr. Henry Prior . Pagliano combines his artistic vocation with an enthusiastic and reckless patriotic commitment, manifested through the faithful militancy of Garibaldi. It is precisely these atmospheres that feed The Prayer Book, whose very stringy setting is reduced to the floor of a kneeler to leave the field full to the young and absorbed reader in fifteenth-century robes, whose colors recall those of the Italian flag.


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