Mascarini Giuseppe (Bologna 1877 - Milan 1954) Pair of oil paintings on panel with beautiful gilded frame of the period "The glacier in the 'casnile' in Albigna" signed and dated lower right G.Mascarini 1919 "The thaw at the small lake in Albigna" signed lower right G. Mascarini 1919 Painting measurements: width 50 cm, height 35 cm Frame measurements: width 55 cm, height 70 cm Published in "Giuseppe Mascarini 1887-1954. A Palette Between Two Centuries" Skira Edition 2016 - page 200.201 plates 339-340 Information about the author: He lived and worked always in Milan. He studied at the Brera Academy. Gifted for drawing and painting, he won prizes in 1896 and 1897 when he participated for the first time in the Brera exhibitions. In 1900 the Academy appointed him "Honorary Member" and later he was called to be part of the permanent painting commission. He spent the early years of the century in Paris where he studied the painting of the great masters of the past and followed the new pictorial trends that were advancing in the climate of general renewal. Influences of themes such as symbolism and divisionism are found in his paintings of the first decades of the '900s. Belonging to this period are the large canvases "The Dream" 1909, "The Visitor" 1909, "Ancient Ballad" 1916 and the large alpine landscapes where the tripartition of the horizons, the divisionism, the skies leading towards infinity, the visual perception refer to reminiscences of Puvis Chevannes, Hodler and Segantini. Mascarini loves the mountains and during the summer stays the beautiful Val Bregaglia is the backdrop for many landscapes represented by him. But there is not only the landscape painting for Mascarini but also the figure painting because nature and humanity are in him two equally vivid terms, both generators of inspiration. In his figure paintings he prefers to observe rather than interpret arbitrarily, to stay as close as possible to the subject rather than load it with extreme meanings. His brushstrokes, the strength of the drawing and warmth always suggest a vision of calm, serene and familiar, a warm unity of tone, a measure, a restrained and spontaneous impulse.