Osvaldo Bignami two-faced antique drawing-Lodi, 1856-Civate, 1936)

Drawing of commoners on paper ,two-sided drawing on frame with glass,reports no.catalog Noferini collection- mis.51x40 drawing 36x27 Author Osvaldo Bignami (Lodi, August 3, 1856 - Civate, May 15, 1936) was an Italian painter. Biography Apprenticed to a decorator in Milan where he moved in his early twenties, he later enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. From his earliest trials he was oriented toward fresco decoration: with this technique he executed portraits of Masaccio and Giovanni Bellini (originally placed in the loggias of the Brera Palace in Milan and now dispersed) that earned him the Mylius Prize in 1893 and 1894. He was a regular participant in the Braidense exhibitions until 1900; within the scope of his pictorial production, of particular note are his sacred subjects, genre scenes and portraits of Luigi Sabatelli, Giacomo Mantegazza and Enrico Zanoni (formerly Milan, Society of Artists and Patriots). In the following years he devoted himself to the pictorial decoration of civil buildings, such as the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia (1909), and religious ones, such as some chapels of the Monumental Cemetery in Lodi (1902-1914), the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Milan (1904, 1909) and the chapel of the Borromeo college in Pavia (1909). Particularly noteworthy are the frescoes in memory of the fallen soldiers of World War I in the Basilica of Santa Margherita in Cortona (1920). He also experimented with the technique of lithography.