PETRILLO VIRTUAL MUSEUM

 

The biography
A testimony
The poetics

 

A   T E S T I M O N Y

"About Petrillo"

by Count G.Bonifazi of Statte, Baron of Ardgour

 
 

I saw Petrillo while he was painting. His hand was moving transported by

an invisible force. He lived for his art and only for his art.

His morning walk from via Margutta to Piazza del Popolo with his loyal

greyhound was a ritual for him. While he was walking he dreamed about

the painting that he was working on.

He wished that life in Rome would be different and often used to bemoan

authority's lack of sensitivity towards art.

He saw the world in a complexity of sensations which went beyond human

and he wished to transport everything on canvas.