Artist: Edgardo Rossaro
Date: 1932
Museum: Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan, Italy)
Technique: Oil
Lorenzo Mola (1860-1932), born in a family of wealthy landowners, graduated in law at the University of Pavia at the age of nineteen. Thanks to the wealthy economic conditions he does not practice the profession but dedicates himself to the administration of his land in Casalpusterlengo, in the Lodi area, and to his interests (he was passionate about music and also a discreet pianist). In his will he appoints his sister Oriele with a legacy of 300,000 lire in favor of the Ospedale Maggiore. For the execution of the commemorative portrait is Oriele, in a letter to the Hospital, to name Edgardo Rossaro, a pupil of Giovanni Fattori in Florence, who performs a work still linked to the late nineteenth-century tradition, in declared controversy with twentieth-century Italian art: it represents the outdoor benefactor, near a low wall, with a large surface of water as a background, and his dog in the foreground.
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