Le carte riscoperte. I disegni delle collezioni Pozzi, Fissore e Donghi alla Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Following the publication of the complete catalogue of the Giuseppe Fiocco Collection, this volume presents another collection of graphic works acquired by the Foundation through Vittorio Cini in the 1970s, consisting of drawings from the Pozzi, Fissore and Donghi collections. As far as the Pozzi and Fissore collections are concerned, the works come from Veneto circles (there is a significant presence of drawings by Gaspare Diziani and Louis Dorigny, for example), but also from other Italian regions, as testified by the works of the Bolognese artists Aureliano Milani and Vittorio Bigari and a large group of drawings by the Lombard Filippo Comerio, as well as from outside Italy. One of the most significant additions to the catalogue are the four copies of the Mantegna frescoes in the Ovetari Chapel, Padua, made by the Ligurian painter Giovanni David. Lastly, also worth noting are a couple of drawings by Federico Zandomeneghi, a leading figure in the fervent Parisian artistic life at the end of the 19th century. The collection once belonging to Daniele Donghi is equally interesting. It includes two particularly striking groups of works: a notebook of drawings by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi and the designs by the Belluno painter and stage designer Pietro Gonzaga. The group of drawings for stage designs by Gonzaga in the Daniele Donghi collection had originally been put together by his father Felice Donghi, a relatively well-known architect and stage designer in Milanese circles in the second half of the 19th century. Some drawings by stage designers Giovanni Battista and Daniele Donghi, Fabrizio Galliari and Alessadnro Sanquirico were added to the collection later on.