Mangalore : A very precious new exhibit has been presented to the ALOYSEUM, the Museum of St Aloysus College, Mangalore by Mrs Silvana RIzzi. The new exhibit is a pencil drawing made by Antonio Moscheni, the painter of the St Aloysius College Chapel.
Antonio Moscheni was a master painter trained at the Academia Carrara in Bergamo, one of the foremost art academies of Italy. He joined the Jesuit Order and was sent to India to paint the St Aloysius College Chapel in 1898. He later painted the Holy Name Cathedral in Mumbai and started painting the newly built Santa Cruz Basilica in Cochin but died of exhaustion before he could complete the work.
Moscheni had presented several well appreciated exhibitions of his paintings in Turin, Milan etc before he joined the Jesuit order. A large collection of these paintings is kept at his ancestral house in Stezzano near Bergamo. A good number of paintings and sketches are also in the possession of Mrs Silvana Rizzi who is the great grand niece of Antonio Moscheni.
She has presented one of these to the SAC museum which was received by Fr Swebert D’Silva, Principal of SAC and director of the Museum. The exhibit was put up by her in the presence of a group of Italians who were on a visit to Mangalore. It is an exquisite pencil drawing of a charioteer and his son.
