Guglielmo Janni

Guglielmo Janni (Rome, 1892 - 1958) After the First World War he studied wall decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with Giulio Bargellini, who he joined to fresco the headquarters of the Bank of Italy, where he also performed the allegorical cycle "History of Italian Currency" (1924). He also works for the Ministries of the Interior and Justice and for the INA building (1925-27). He also left works at the Chapel of the Fallen of the Church of San Bartolomeo in Busseto (Parma, 1928) and at the Terme di Montecatini. In 1926 he won the Franciscan Art Competition in Milan with the altarpiece depicting "St. Francis preaching to the fish". In the thirties he attended the painters of the so-called Roman School, becoming a friend of Fazzini and Ziveri. 

He exhibited for about a decade: in 1921 and 1923 at the I and II Biennale Romana, in 1929 and in 1930 at the I and II exhibition of the Lazio Fascist Syndicate and again in 1930 at the First national exhibition of the animal in art; in 1931 he was present at the I Quadriennale in Rome and in 1936 at the Venice Biennale. The "La Cometa" Gallery, directed by Libero de Libero, organizes two solo exhibitions (1935 and 1936). He stopped painting shortly after to devote himself to the study of the poet Giuseppe Gioacchino beautiful, maternal great-grandfather, on which he intended to publish a biography.