BARGELLINI, GIULIO. - Painter, b. in Firenze on 14 Feb. 1875, d. in Roma in 1936. Even in an age of rampant realism, he remained faithful to a deliberately archaizing style of painting, boldly decorative by virtue of precious chromatic juxtapositions, referable to the Pre-Raphaelite current. Worth recalling are his lunettes for the Mole Sacconiana and the frescoes for the Banca d'Italia and for the council chamber in the Ministero della giustizia in Roma, in which the event of the Conciliation is commemorated. His principal works of sacred art are: the Crucifixion at Calenzano (Firenze) and the chapel of S. Giovanni Gualberto at S. Prassede (Roma). The mosaic decoration of the entrance wall in the rebuilt cathedral of Messina was destroyed by the war.
G. Bargellini, Gli affreschi nella sala del Consiglio della Banca d'Italia (report), Roma 1924; P. Vittoria, La conciliazione negli affreschi di G. B., in Illustrazione Romana, 1 (1939), pp. 14-17.