Guglielmo Janni

Set of Autographs by Guglielmo Janni - 1937

1937

After the First World War, Guglielmo Janni studied wall decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with Giulio Bargellini, who Janni later joined to fresco the headquarters of the Bank of Italy. It is also the same place where he also performed the allegorical cycle "History of Italian Currency" (1924). He also worked for the Ministries of the Interior and Justice and for the INA building from 1925 to 1927. Janni has left works at the Chapel of the Fallen of the Church of San Bartolomeo in Busseto (Parma, 1928) and at the Terme di Montecatini. In 1926, he won the Franciscan Art Competition in Milan with the altarpiece depicting "St. Francis preaching to the fish." In the ‘30s, he attended the painters of the Roman School, becoming a friend of Fazzini and Ziveri. He exhibited for about a decade: in 1921 and 1923 at the I and II Biennale Romana, in 1929 and in 1930 at the I and II exhibition of the Lazio Fascist Syndicate and again in 1930 at the First national exhibition of the animal in art; in 1931 he was present at the I Quadriennale in Rome and in 1936 at the Venice Biennale. The "La Cometa" Gallery, directed by Libero de Libero, organized two solo exhibitions of Janni (1935 and 1936). He stopped painting shortly after to devote himself to the study of the poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, his maternal great-grandfather, on which he intended to publish a biography.