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Weâve counted almost five hundred paintings, including those from the Lombard period and those from the Roman period,â saidÂ
Eliseo Valenti. “Today, 90% are to be found in homes in Gallarate, but we went to Rome, where we also contacted his grandchildren, who informed us of about fifty paintings in total.”
Magrotti was a landscape artist who painted what was around him. So, during his Gallarate period, he produced scenes of Lake Varese and Lake Maggiore, some works with a mountain in the background, the markets of Luino and Varese, numerous farmsteads, minor rural landscapes painted with a lyrical tone, some glimpses of “old Gallarate”, a small ancient world that changed profoundly in those years.