Giulio Aristide Sartorio More Art

Sibilla is an original couple of books engraved by Giulio Aristide Sartorio (Rome, 1860 - 1932) in 1922. Original First Edition. 1333 numbered and signed copies. Published by L'Eroica, Milan. Format: in 4°. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 230 pages with 219 etchings (70 of them are in full page). Good conditions. Giulio Aristide Sartorio (11 February 1860 – 3 October 1932) was an Italian painter and film director from Rome. Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He formed friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside. He won a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and met the Pre-Raphaelites in England in 1893. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in 1895 with the 1st International Exposition of Art of Venice, after which he taught at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1898. His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione...