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Mollusc block
Glass urn from the Necropolis of via Cavour, Biella
Vasi Piroga
Cinerary urn and cerrione necropolis equipment
Mummy sarcophagus
Bowl with two hummingbirds
Statuette of coquero
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Male figure
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Campaniforma Jar
Clay head with almond-shaped eyes and headdress
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Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Mountain landscape with cows
Madonna with child
Triptych Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Marina
The drummer
The sleep test
Reflections of a hungry
Between colors and vapors
Judith and Holofernes
Monument to Lorenzo Delleani
Mollusc block
Glass urn from the Necropolis of via Cavour, Biella
Vasi Piroga
Cinerary urn and cerrione necropolis equipment
Mummy sarcophagus
Bowl with two hummingbirds
Statuette of coquero
Clay bowl imitating a pumpkin
Anthropomorphic bottle warrior moche
Male figure
Female statuette of a praying woman
Campaniforma Jar
Clay head with almond-shaped eyes and headdress
Sunshine
Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Mountain landscape with cows
Madonna with child
Triptych Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Marina
The drummer
The sleep test
Reflections of a hungry
Between colors and vapors
Judith and Holofernes
Monument to Lorenzo Delleani

Between colors and vapors

Giuseppe Bozzalla

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Museum of the Biella Territory

Museum of the Biella Territory

Via Q. Sella, 54/b, Biella

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Encouraged to devote himself to painting by Lorenzo Delleani, after having studied at the Accademia Albertina, Giuseppe Bozzalla - grandson of Quintino Sella - continued to attend his first teacher, proudly declaring himself his favorite and most affectionate pupil, however he soon departed from him. for subjects treated and for the technique used: the snowy landscapes, almost completely absent in the painting of the Aniana, invade that of Bozzalla who prefers a technique made of small strokes of the palette knife to the energetic brushstroke of the master. If in Delleani it was light and color that triumphed, Bozzalla's works seem to be played on never violent shades and tones of color, almost evoking melancholy and nostalgic feelings. Among colors and vapors, a work of great commitment, in terms of size and pictorial conception, it was presented in Turin at the 1904 Exposition of the Promoter and had the honor of being reproduced in the Catalog: curiously in the photograph we note that the worker placed at the extreme right is represented with bare head, differently from the final version. After the exhibition, the canvas was purchased by Vittorio Emanuele III and transferred to Rome, at the Quirinale, where it remained until the institutional referendum of 1946. From that moment on traces are lost until the Biella anthology of 1960, where the work was exhibited as the property of Rodolfo Caraccio, a wealthy wool industrialist. With a testamentary disposition, Caraccio donated it in 1972, together with another work by Bozzalla - A Messa prima - to the Civic Administration of Biella who undertook to allocate it to the Civic Museum. It is in fact a realistic interpretation of the work linked to the dyeing of fabrics, a procedure that Bozzalla knew directly as the son of a textile industrialist. The scene, which takes place in a closed environment saturated with vapors, is set with an almost photographic cut and appears as the result of a rigorous research.
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Title: Between colors and vapors

Author: Giuseppe Bozzalla

Date: 1904

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Museum of the Biella Territory

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