Carla Szathvary, Author at CHO

Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867–1917): The Architect of Milanese Liberty

Italian Liberty had no more forceful voice than Giuseppe Sommaruga. In a career of barely two decades he gave Milan […]

Marcello Piacentini (Roma, 8 dicembre 1881 – Roma, 18 maggio 1960) morì nella città dove era nato e dove aveva

No architect left a deeper mark on the public face of interwar Italy than Marcello Piacentini. A university city, a

Arturo Martini spent his life trying to make sculpture modern and ended it declaring the art dead. In between he

No architect is more completely identified with a single city than Antoni Gaudí is with Barcelona. In little more than

If Antoni Gaudí gave Barcelona its Art Nouveau, Ernesto Basile gave Sicily its Liberty. Working mostly in Palermo, he turned

L’architetto Ernesto Basile (Palermo, 31 gennaio 1857 – Palermo, 26 agosto 1932) morì nella sua città natale. Figura centrale del

Giuseppe Terragni died at thirty-nine, and in barely fifteen working years he became the defining figure of Italian Rationalism. He

Few Italian lives of the last century left as many marks on the map as Gabriele d’Annunzio’s. Poet, novelist, playwright,

Gabriele d’Annunzio (Pescara, 12 marzo 1863 – Gardone Riviera, 1º marzo 1938) morì al Vittoriale degli Italiani, la residenza che