Sege Brokers Historical Archive Foundation - Lira Banknotes

This precious edition of "The Banknotes of the Lira" features a beautiful sculpture on the cover by the renowned Umbrian artist Elvio Marchionni. The bas-relief tondo presents Marchionni's sculptural interpretation of the one-lira coin.

Known primarily for his torn frescoes and references to fifteenth- and fourteenth-century painting, in this work Elvio Marchionni demonstrates his ability to draw inspiration from other sources as well. The bas-relief, in fact, finds its primary model in classical Greek and Roman sculpture and, of course, ancient numismatics. As is typical in the Spello artist's work, however, the source drawn from the past is reworked with his fertile contemporary sensibility. First, the figure is delineated along a more square and essential line, allowing for a modern expressiveness. The remaining space of the work, however, presents an extremely uneven surface that effectively contrasts with the smoothness of the figure. In this expressionist and contemporary reworking, Marchionni nevertheless manages to calibrate the composition, creating an overall effect of great classical harmony and balance.

Elvio Marchionni is an artist born in Spello in 1954. His entire artistic research is grounded in the recovery of memories and emotions from the past. His paintings appear like fragments of torn frescoes, references to 15th-century Umbrian painting, of which Marchionni is a great connoisseur. His sculptures presuppose a study of Renaissance harmony and proportion. However, this process of recovering memory merges, in Marchionni, with a careful exploration of artistic language in keeping with a contemporary sensibility.

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