Pietro Annigoni (1910 – 1988) is one of Italy's leading artists of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the group of "modern painters of reality", a great portraitist, he was able to represent the men and women of his time by portraying not only their faces but also their souls.
An artist who attached great importance to drawing and technique, he was not interested in the work of many contemporaries characterized by more avant-garde impulses, and at the same time his art was rejected by abstractionists.
Internationally renowned painter, Pietro Annigoni, in his prestigious career he was also a portraitist of Queen Elizabeth II.

Published on "Annigoni - Affreschi di Montecassino", Tonolli Gallery, Rovereto, 1980.