CODES Record Type Moveable Object

Entry type OA Work Display Mario Oddone Cavaglieri (Rovigo, 1887 -

Peyloubére, 1969). I Fidanzati (1919). Oil on
Canvas. Collection of Raccolta MIAC
RELATIONSHIP Note Made within the period which art historians
Complex Structure consider to be his richest between 1909 to his
move to France in 1925, R. Longhi notes his
Direct Relationship Part of Raccolta MIAC Collection singular subject of inspiration, being his lover
Giulietta who left to marry another man. This
Other Relationship rendered him to paint mostly female figures in a
room in the most varied and immediate poses of
everyday life. This particular painting has been
OBJECT noted of being an outcome of his engagement
with Giulietta, immediately after the death of her
Object Type Painting new husband. The painting was taken to his
French residence in Peyloubére where it
Subject Title I Fidanzati
remained until his death in 1969 and was
bequeathed to the MIAC.

LOCATION Titles I Fidanzati (The Fiancé)

Current Location Museo Novecento - Piazza di Santa Catalog Level Item

Previous Location(s)
RELATIONSHIP
Final Work/Original
Type of Relationship
Details of the Final Work/Original
Maria Novella, 10, 50123 Firenze FI
Room 13 - The Review Culture and
Figurative Language
The artists's residence in Peyloubére,
France
Work Types (AAT) oil painting (visual work) [300033799]
(preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal
Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works
(hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual
works by material or technique>, paintings (visual
works), <paintings by material or technique>)
Classifications paintings (preferred)
Creation Date 1919
Creator Display (ULAN) Mario Oddone Cavaglieri (Rovigo, 1887 -
Peyloubére, 1969)

Locations (TGN; ULAN)

REUSE Current (if in a museum, repository Florence (inhabited place) [7000457]
Reused Part numbers, credit line, address note)

Reuse Type Museo Novecento - Piazza di Santa Maria

Novella, 10, 50123 Firenze FI
Reuse Chronology
Room 13 - The Review Culture and Figurative
Language
CHRONOLOGY Other (Creation)

Generic Chronology Early 20th Century Display Materials (AAT) oil paint (paint) [300015050]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name),
Specific Chronology 1919 materials (substances), <materials by function>,
Reason Bibliography coating (material), <coating by form>, paint
(coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

canvas (textile material) [300014078]

CULTURE .......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name),
materials (substances), <materials by form>,
Creator Mario Oddone Cavaglieri (Rovigo, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by
1887 - Peyloubére, 1969) product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials,
Reason <textile materials by process or technique>)
Signature
Dimensions Support: 1860 (Height) x 2160 (Width) mm;
Patronage
Frame: 2000 (Height) x 2200 (Width) x 40
(Depth) mm

TECHNICAL DETAILS Cultures Italian (preferred)

Technique Oil On Canvas Style/Period/Group/Movement Impressionist (style) [300021503]

(AAT) (<modern European fine arts styles and
Dimensions 186 x 216 cm movements>, <modern European styles and
movements>, ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy
name))
CONSERVATION Impressionism

State of Conservation Excellent General Subject human figures (visual works) [300404114]
(figures (representations), <visual works by
subject type>, ... Visual and Verbal
Communication (hierarchy name))
RESTORATIONS figures, human (visual works)
Date 5 Nov 14 human figure (visual work)

Restorer Loredana Gallo interior [300010279]

DESCRIPTIVE NOTE
Object Description Group portrait depicting an allegory of
the artist's life
Iconclass Code
Subject Elements Characters: two young ladies, one
elderly lady, and one young man.
Furniture: sofa, divan, backstool,
bonheurs-du-jour. Wall Decorations:
Three square paintings (one of two
children, one of figures on bottom left
corner, and one landscape), four round
portraits, a coat of arms. Objects:
Pipe, small container boxes.
Inscriptions Signature, in capital letter brush, lower
right: CAVAGLIERI
Transcription of the International
Museum of Contemporary Art of
Florence, Italic/Arabic numerals,
embossed, on a card towards the
center at the back: 204
Transcription, italic, pen, close to the
frame at the top center: Le fiancés,
Auteur Cavaglieri Pavie
Coats of Arms, Marks
(<positional attributes by relative position>,
positional attributes, ... Attributes and Properties
(hierarchy name))
Specific Subjects (CONA IA; coats of arms [300126352]
AAT) (coats of arms and coat of arms elements,
devices (symbols), ... Visual and Verbal
Communication (hierarchy name))
coat of arms
cabriole sofas [300038639]
(sofas, multiple-seating furniture, ... Furnishings
and Equipment (hierarchy name))
Cabriole-Sofa
bonheurs-du-jour [300039475]
(ladies' writing tables, writing tables, ...
Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))
tables à gradin
studio portraits [300223022]
(<photographs by subject type>, photographs, ...
Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy
name))
portraits, studio
studio portrait
canvas paintings [300410350]
(<paintings by material or technique>, paintings
(visual works), ... Visual and Verbal
Communication (hierarchy name))
canvas painting
paintings, canvas

Historical and Critical Information Made within the period which art backstools [300037789]
historians consider to be his richest (<chairs by form>, chairs (furniture forms), ...
between 1909 to his move to France in Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))
1925, R. Longhi notes his singular back-stool chairs
subject of inspiration, being his lover
Giulietta who left to marry another men (male humans) [300025928]
man. This rendered him to paint (<people by gender>, people (agents), People
mostly female figures in a room in the (hierarchy name))
most varied and immediate poses of man (male human)
everyday life. This particular painting man's (male human's)
has been noted of being an outcome women (female humans) [300025943]
of his engagement with Giulietta, (<people by gender>, people (agents), People
immediately after the death of her new (hierarchy name))
husband. The painting was taken to women's
his French residence in Peyloubére
where it remained until his death in children (people by age group)
1969 and was bequeathed to the [300025945]
MIAC. (youth (people), <people by age group>, ...
People (hierarchy name))
children's (people by age group)
LEGAL STATUS pipes (smoking equipment)
Generic Information Property of a Public Territorial Entity [300248067]
(<equipment for smoking and tobacco use>,
Specific Information Property of Comune di Firenze, personal equipment, ... Furnishings and
Raccolta MIAC, Colezione Museo Equipment (hierarchy name))
Novecento pipe (smoking equipment)

Provenance The artists's residence in Peyloubére, France

SOURCES AND RELATED Creation Numbers

DOCUMENTS
Photographs Quattrone, Antonio [I fidanzati di Mario
Oddone Cavaglieri], 02/03/2014, INV.
132507
Quattrone, Antonio [I fidanzati di Mario
Oddone Cavaglieri], 02/03/2014, INV.
132508
Tosi, Paolo (Softeam Ware s.r.l.) [I
fidanzati di Mario Oddone Cavaglieri],
18/11/2003, INV. 21307
Inscriptions Signature, in capital letter brush, lower right:
CAVAGLIERI
Transcription of the International Museum of
Contemporary Art of Florence, Italic/Arabic
numerals, embossed, on a card towards the
center at the back: 204
Transcription, italic, pen, close to the frame at the
top center: Le fiancés, Auteur Cavaglieri Pavie
Marks

Musei Civici Fiorentini. Archivi Digitali. Watermarks

Archival Documents
interno con figure I fidanzati. MCF- Related Works (CONA)
MIAC 2004-11816

Bibliography Galleria dello scudo., Cavaglieri, M., Hierarchical Position (CONA) Movable Works
Monti, R., Vareilles, V., Di, C. M., &
Braun, E. (1993). Mario Cavaglieri: Gli Sources and Contributors ........ [JPGM]
anni brillanti : dipinti 1912-1922. (CONA) ........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for
Milano: Mazzotta. collections (2000-)

Monti, R., & Pistone, G. (1988). Mario Bibliography

Cavaglieri. Roma: De Luca
Galleria dello scudo., Cavaglieri, M., Monti, R.,
R. Longhi, in Il Tempo , May 28, 1919, Vareilles, V., Di, C. M., & Braun, E. (1993). Mario
( then in Youth Writings ..., Florence Cavaglieri: Gli anni brillanti : dipinti 1912-1922.
1961, pp. 433-435) Milano: Mazzotta.

CL Ragghianti, in Sele Arte , 1953, p Monti, R., & Pistone, G. (1988). Mario Cavaglieri.
27; G. Bassani, Un ined . by M . C. , In Roma: De Luca
Parag ., IV (1953), 39, pp. 51-53
Subject Larasathi P.
Exhibitions Mario Cavaglieri, the glittering years.
2018, 18 April
Paintings 1912-1922 at Galleria Dello
Scudo, curated by Raffaele Monti and Note
Viviane Vareilles
12-12-1993 / 20-02-1994

Mario Cavaglieri, the glittering years.

Paintings 1912-1922. at the Jewish
Museum, curated by Raffaele Monti
and Viviane Vareilles
02-10-1994 / 29-01-1995

Mario Cavaglieri: Mostra, Ente Premi

Roma, 11-04-1980 /18-05-1980.
Roma: De Luca.

COMPILATION

Date 18 Apr 18
Contributor Larasathi P.
CODES Record Type Moveable Object

Entry type OA Work Display Ennio Morlotti (Lecco, 1910 - Milano, 1992). Fiori
(1959). Oil on Canvas. Collection of Raccolta
MIAC
RELATIONSHIP Note Second half of a pair, Fiori first presents a fresh
Complex Structure bouquet of purple Calendula flowers, while in the
second half of the pair, the same bouquet of
Direct Relationship Part of the Collection of Alberto Della flowers has died and dried. The painting is an
Ragione ode to the author's childhood in Lecco and how it
has changed and decayed as the Calendulas
Other Relationship Part of a pair grow in abundance there.

Titles Fiori (Flowers)

OBJECT Catalog Level Item
Object Type Painting Work Types (AAT) oil painting (visual work) [300033799]
(preferred)
Subject Title Fiori
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal
Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works
(hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual
LOCATION works by material or technique>, paintings (visual
works), <paintings by material or technique>)
Current Location Museo Novecento - Piazza di Santa
Maria Novella, 10, 50123 Firenze FI Classifications paintings (preferred)
Room 10.1 - The Collection of Alberto Creation Date 1959
Della Ragione
Creator Display (ULAN) Ennio Morlotti (Lecco, 1910 - Milano, 1992)
Previous Location(s) Palazzo Bombicci - via de 'Calzaiuoli
2-12 red, Piazza Della Signoria, 50122 Locations (TGN; ULAN)
Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence
Current (if in a museum, repository Florence (inhabited place) [7000457]
RELATIONSHIP numbers, credit line, address note)

Final Work/Original Museo Novecento - Piazza di Santa Maria

Novella, 10, 50123 Firenze FI
Type of Relationship
Room 10.1 - The Collection of Alberto Della
Details of the Final Work/Original Ragione
Other (Creation)
REUSE Display Materials (AAT) oil paint (paint) [300015050]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name),
Reused Part
materials (substances), <materials by function>,
Reuse Type coating (material), <coating by form>, paint
(coating), <paint by composition or origin>)
Reuse Chronology
canvas (textile material) [300014078]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name),
materials (substances), <materials by form>,
CHRONOLOGY
<materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by
Generic Chronology Mid 20th Century product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials,
<textile materials by process or technique>)
Specific Chronology 1959
Dimensions Support: 700 (Height) x 500 (Width) mm; Frame:
Reason Inscription 730 (Height) x 530 (Width) x 50 (Depth) mm

Cultures Italian (preferred)

CULTURE Style/Period/Group/Movement Art Informel [300022176]

(AAT) (<post-1945 fine arts styles and movements>,
Creator Ennio Morlotti (Lecco, 1910 - Milano, <international post-1945 styles and movements>,
1992) ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy name))
Reason Signature Art, Informal

Patronage General Subject Angiospermae (division) [300265706]

(Plantae (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), ...
Living Organisms (hierarchy name))
flowering plant
TECHNICAL DETAILS flowering plants
Technique Oil On Canvas Specific Subjects (CONA IA; dried flowers [300400557]
AAT) (natural visual works, <visual works by location or
Dimensions 70 x 50 cm
context>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication
(hierarchy name))
dried flower
CONSERVATION flowers, dried
State of Conservation Excellent Calendula

Provenance Collection of Alberto Della Ragione

RESTORATIONS
Date
Restorer
DESCRIPTIVE NOTE
Object Description Plant, flowers
Iconclass Code
Subject Elements Objects: dried bouquet of flowers,
Calendulas.
Inscriptions Signature, italic/Arabic numerals/
characters, brush, lower right: Morlotti
59
Transcription, capitals / italics / Arabic
numbers, embossed/pen, on tag at the
top center on the back:
MUNICIPALITY OF FLORENCE N.
130 / Collection "Della Ragione" /
Author: MORLOTTI / Title:
FLOWERS / Technique: OIL ON
CANVAS / Dimensions: 70 x 50
Signature, Italic/Arabic numerals/
characters, brush, back in the lower
center: 59/Morlotti
Coats of Arms, Marks
Historical and Critical Information Second half of a pair, Fiori first
presents a fresh bouquet of purple
Calendula flowers, while in the second
half of the pair, the same bouquet of
flowers has died and dried. The
painting is an ode to the author's
childhood in Lecco and how it has
changed and decayed as the
Calendulas grow in abundance there.
Creation Numbers
Inscriptions Signature, in capital letter brush, lower right:
CAVAGLIERI
Transcription of the International Museum of
Contemporary Art of Florence, Italic/Arabic
numerals, embossed, on a card towards the
center at the back: 204
Transcription, italic, pen, close to the frame at the
top center: Le fiancés, Auteur Cavaglieri Pavie
Marks
Watermarks
Related Works (CONA) Fiori
Hierarchical Position (CONA) Movable Works
Sources and Contributors ........ [JPGM]
(CONA) ........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for
collections (2000-)
Bibliography
Morlotti, E., Bruno, G., Castagnoli, P. G., &
Biasin, D. (2002). Ennio Morlotti: Il sentimento
dell'organico. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana
Morlotti, E., & Hölderlin, F. (1975). Ennio Morlotti:
Erinnerung an Friedrich Hölderlin : [Ausstellung],
Marlborough Galerie, Zürich, November 1975 :
[Katalog]. Zürich: Die Galerie.
Larasathi P.
Subject
2018, 18 April
Note

LEGAL STATUS

Generic Information Property of a Public Territorial Entity

Specific Information Comune di Firenze

SOURCES AND RELATED

DOCUMENTS

Photographs Tosi, Paolo (Softeam Ware s.r.l.)

[Flowers of Ennio Morlotti], 2003, INV.
20571

Archival Documents Musei Civici Fiorentini. Archivi Digitali.

Fiori. MCF-DR 2004-21557

Bibliography Morlotti, E., Bruno, G., Castagnoli, P.

G., & Biasin, D. (2002). Ennio Morlotti:
Il sentimento dell'organico. Cinisello
Balsamo: Silvana

Morlotti, E., & Hölderlin, F. (1975).

Ennio Morlotti: Erinnerung an Friedrich
Hölderlin : [Ausstellung], Marlborough
Galerie, Zürich, November 1975 :
[Katalog]. Zürich: Die Galerie.

Exhibitions Morlotti, E., Cooper, D., & Marlborough

Gallery. (1973). Ennio Morlotti. New
York: Marlborough Gallery.

Morlotti, E., & Galerie Carzaniga +

Ueker. (1989). Ennio Morlotti:
Ausstellung Galerie Carzaniga +
Ueker Basel, 29. Juni bis 12. August
1989. Basel: Carzaniga + Ueker.

Morlotti, E., & Odyssia Gallery. (1964).

Ennio Morlotti: February 18-March 7,
1964. New York: Galleria Odyssia.

COMPILATION

Date 18 Apr 18

Contributor Larasathi P.