Umberto Bellotto (Venezia 1882 - Venezia 1940) "Connubio di ferro e vetro" Embossed and forged iron foil depicting a telamon holding a plant-shaped element. Venice, 1925ca. (h 98 cm.) (glass missing) Provenance Galleria Daniela Balzaretti, Milan The work originally came from Guido Marangoni Collection, director of ‘Pagine d'Arte’ (1914), member of the Italian Parliament, man of letters and critic, director of the Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, promoter of the Istituto d'Arte and the Biennali d'Arte Decorativa in Monza (later Triennali di Milano), founder and director of the magazine ‘La Casa Bella’ (1928-1930). In the first decades of the 20th century, Guido Marangoni was a protagonist and theorist of the confrontation and intertwining of minor and major arts, craft and industry that was to prelude the development, in the second half of the century, of Industrial Design Exhibition The work was presented at the 11th Venice Biennale in 1914. Subsequently exhibited on the occasion of the centenary of the Biennale at the exhibition ‘Venezia e la Biennale. I percorsi del gusto’ catalogue Fabbri Editori 1995, page 382 Literature "Emporium", luglio 1922; G. Marangoni, Enciclopedia delle moderne arti decorative. Vol II, Il Ferro Battuto, Ceschina, Milano 1926, tav. 114; Mostra del Liberty Italiano, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano 1973