Who’s next?… Benedetta Cappa

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Cime arse di solitudine, 1936

Benedetta Cappa was a multifaceted 20th-century Italian artist: painter, writer, set designer… Often obscured, she nevertheless possessed a vibrant personality, so much so that she soon adopted her first name as her pen name, both in her writings and paintings: Benedetta. Read more →

Who’s next? Marisa Mori…

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Dipinto futurista

Marisa Mori, born Maria Luisa Lurini, is an Italian painter who was self-taught, but soon art becomes her reason for living. Primarily a painter and an exponent of diverse artistic movements, she moved from the Turin school of Casorati to Futurism, eventually broadening her interests to photography and theater design. Read more →

Who’s next?… Rosa Rosà

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Illustrazione da “Le mille e una notte”

The column “Who’s Next?” is renewed, not in substance, but in form. In fact, we will continue to write about unjustly forgotten protagonists of Italian art, culture and literature, but we will do it from another angle, that is, by narrating their story in first person, through a sort of fictional story or memoir, this time dedicated to the eclectic Rosa Rosà, writer, illustrator and futurist painter active above all in the 10s and 20s of the 20th century.
So let her voice guide us…
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