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the indian ink drawinGs By their roots, when it has not been locked Pirano, Il Porticciolo
leonardo BellasPiGa, on up in the foibe. The focus of his art is
the trail of the serenissima the constant wonder at the beauty of
creation but also the wonder aroused in
ulle ali della Bora, nel ruggito del the centuries by the ingenuity of which
SLeone; da Trieste a Cattaro sulla the human being is capable. Perhaps
rotta di Venezia is not only an artistic this is why among his admirers there
composition: it is an operation of the are also the two last pontiffs: Benedetto
soul, a pulse of the heart, an incentive to XVI, who preserves the twenty-five
memory, a tribute to history. It is a fee- tables dedicated to the Sacro Monte
ling of brotherhood that runs along the of Varese; and Pope Francesco, who
“Italian” eastern Adriatic coast, where at Easter meditated on the Via Crucis
the first romanitas and the Serenissima recently designed by Bellaspiga. The
Repubblica di Venezia have then one hundred and fifty indian ink
marked a civilization today represented drawings on the wings of the Bora, in
by dreamed places... because left the roar of the Lion are to be considered
behind. Leonardo Bellaspiga, born in a masterpiece as they help to reason,
1925 in Osimo, an engineer who loves express a starting point, a proposal to
art, science, opera and beauty, with deepen, a solicitation to understand.
his magnificent indian ink drawings Therefore, the immediate aspect of the
wonderfully reproduces signs and design, that is the aesthetic one, seems
landscapes that reach Montenegro to go hand in hand with the ethical
through Dalmatia. His refined black one, aimed at seeking the meaning
and white lace the glimpses of that of existence. This is really a work that,
territory is the sign of an extraordinary deservingly, helps to turn the memory
sensitivity that is essentially human, into a duty, art into a fundamental
where the places designed are the pedagogical element and... the Adriatic
story of a people forced to abandon in a bridge.

Muggia, Il Mandracchio Parenzo, Basilica Eufrasiana

Cristoglie - Capodistria, Chiesa romanica con fortificazioni
della Santissima Trinità XII-XIV sec. (particolare)

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