BARGELLINI, GIULIO. - Painter, b. in Florence on 14 Feb. 1875, d. in Rome in 1936. Even in times of rampant verism, he remained faithful to a deliberately archaic style of painting, boldly decorative by virtue of precious chromatic juxtapositions, referable to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Worth remembering are his lunettes for the Mole Sacconiana and the frescoes for the Banca d'Italia and for the council chamber in the Ministry of Justice in Rome, in which the event of the Conciliation is evoked. His major works of sacred art are: the Crucifixion of Calenzano (Florence) and the chapel of St. John Gualbert at St. Praxedes (Rome). The mosaic decoration of the entrance wall in the rebuilt cathedral of Messina was destroyed by the war.

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BIBL.: G. Bistolfi, Il poeta dell'ombra dorata, s. a. e l.; R. Angeletti - E. Natali, Gli artisti a Roma, Sulmona 1909, p. 43; G. Bargellini, Gli affreschi nella sala del Consiglio della Banca d'Italia (relazione), Roma 1924; P. Vittoria, La conciliazione negli affreschi di G. B., in Illustrazione Romana, 1 (1939), pp. 14-17.

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Bargellini, Giulio

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