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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Walter Del Pellegrino, post: 398938, member: 90&quot;]Here is a rough translation of the artist’s biography:</p><p><br /></p><p>Carlo Giannitrapani, originally from Livorno, was born in Florence in 1933.</p><p>His passion for drawing, painting, ceramics and art history proved immediately decisive, right from school age.</p><p>His father directed him to technical studies, because in the immediate post-war period, having the prospect of safe work was fundamental; but the young Giannitrapani, while finishing his studies, does not adapt to the life of the accountant.</p><p>The artist prevails and Giannitrapani sets up shop, a ramshackle atelier, as he defines it, which grew in importance and fame for his mastery in the art of ceramics and the originality of the works. In the period of the economic boom, many requests came from abroad, especially from the United States.</p><p>Among his works we recall the caricatures of the legendary Niccolò Carosio and the beloved Nereo Rocco at the Coverciano Football Museum; in Montecatini Terme in the lunette of the portal of the Church of S. Antonio the scenes of the life of the saint; in Florence, in the church of San Francesco di Paola, the Baptist at the baptismal font, the Beatitudes, the Miracle of the blind man born, the Last Supper and the St. Francis of Paola, with a severe and penitential appearance, donated during the V centenary of the Saint&#039;s death (1507-2007) and placed in the chapel dedicated to him; in San Piero a Sieve he made a bas-relief of Leonardo&#039;s cenacle in terracotta. He also exhibited a large ceramic group in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence depicting the procession of football in costume and made, for the municipality of Campiglia marittima, the ceramic coat of arms donated to the Madonna di Montenero sanctuary in Livorno and kept in the municipal gallery of Tuscany of the sanctuary itself.</p><p>Among his many works, large and small, in his collection you can also admire various subjects that portray sportsmen, singers, politicians and artists, and finally themes ranging from the sacred to the profane.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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