Date
Second decade of the Twentieth Century
Technique
Oil on Canvas
Size
50x62 cm - unframed; 73x88 cm - with frame
Inscriptions
Signed at the bottom right "P. Pascucci"
Placement
"P. Pascucci" Library - Polo Culturale Le Clarisse
Property
Municipality of Grosseto
Audioguide
Description:
Mario Paggi (Murlo 1902 – Milan 1964) was an Italian lawyer, journalist, and politician.
Son of Edoardo Paggi, a doctor of Jewish origin, he was a student of Piero Calamandrei in Siena and later moved to Milan, where he became involved in anti-fascism.
In 1928, he was arrested and sentenced to confinement. In 1938, due to the racial laws, he could no longer practice his profession.
In 1942, he was among the founders of the Action Party, and after the war, he was a deputy of the National Consulta. Then he began to collaborate with the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, approached the liberal party, and in 1955 was among the founders of the Radical political Party.
The painting can be dated, based on the age of the youth in the portrait, to the second decade of the twentieth century and was donated to the Municipality of Grosseto in 1971 by Mario Paggi and his wife Olga Lessana.