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The art critic Giedrė Jankevičiūtė announced the sad news on Sunday afternoon.
“Giovanna Pignatelli-Lozoraitis (September 25, 1930 – July 25, 1921) died at her home in Rome this morning,” she wrote on her Facebook account.
The art critic shared a photo taken by Peter Klim showing a woman in 1968. In the summer of Porto Ercole (Italian province of Tuscany) he was immortalized with his daughter Daina, husband and friend Simonetta Cattani-Cavalchini.
G. Pignatelli-Lozoraitis was originating from an ancient tribe of Italian aristocrats. Among his ancestors there were many famous people, probably the most famous of them: Pope Innocent XII.
Because the Pignatelli family constantly talked about art and its creators, his grandfather was a passionate art collector and his mother was a talented painter, and after graduating from school, Giovanna entered the Academy of Fine Arts to study. painting.
Unfortunately, due to my mother’s illness, I had to drop out of school. The girl later returned to study, but no longer at the Academy of Fine Arts, but at the Central Institute of Restoration in Rome.
In the first year, the future restorer learned the trade together with his classmates by designing the frescoes in the Chapel of the Hermitage in Padua, which was damaged during the bombing of World War II.
He dedicated his entire life to this profession: at the beginning of his career, he restored the burials of the Etruscans of Tarquinia for several years, and then revived the Chapel of the Forty Martyrs of the Roman Forum in the 8th century. mural painting, restored the Chigi Palace in the city of Aričiai, many works of oriental art and modern paintings.
Shutterstock.com/ Skrendu.lt photo / St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Italy
1966 March 13 At the Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilica, an Italian married the Lithuanian diplomat K. Lozoraitis and entered a house that was one of the centers of Lithuanian life in Rome.
There he met prominent Lithuanian public figures and artists who were forced to withdraw from Soviet-occupied Lithuania to Italy.
A decade ago, G. Pignatelli-Lozoraitis participated in the European Heritage Days held in Lithuania at that time.
In the former palace of the Umiastovskis nobles, he gave a lecture on personal experience in reviving many world heritage masterpieces.
The artist-restorer also visited Kaunas and fulfilled an old wish to see the whole of the Pažaislis Camaldolese Monastery.
The former diplomat’s widow said at the time that Lithuania’s regaining of independence was a great celebration for her family.
K. Lozoraitis was a well-known Lithuanian diplomat, an expatriate figure, the first Extraordinary Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to the Holy See and the Order of Malta.
123rf.com nuotr./Vatikanas
The Soviet Union, occupying our country, suspended its representations and consulates abroad, but the diplomatic service succeeded until 1990. Preserving the official representation of independent Lithuania in the most important western states as an important tradition of the statehood of the Republic of Lithuania and the continuity of diplomacy, implement a policy of non-recognition of annexation to some extent at the international level,
K. Lozoraitis represented Lithuania in the Vatican at that time.
Former diplomat in 2007 after leaving Anapilin, his widow rent was paid.
Such rents in 1940-1990. The appointment of diplomats or their widows on behalf of our country was provided by law. They were entitled to a benefit of 1,500 euros.
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