Argentina-Genova Round Trip

An unpublished masterpiece of early twentieth-century Italian painting returns to Genoa: the monumental Portrait of Julia Lavarello Anselmo painted by Vincenzo Irolli in 1907. The exhibition at the GAM tells the fascinating story of one of Genoa's most influential families, the Lavarello-Anselmo, whose destinies were intertwined with the major maritime trade between Genoa and Buenos Aires during the Belle Époque. Through this extraordinary painting, a forgotten chapter of transatlantic relations that shaped Genoa's identity resurfaces, a testament to the great European portraiture tradition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.