London – The ceremony for the return of two precious eighteenth-century drawings by the Bergamo architect Giacomo Quarenghi, one of the main exponents of neoclassical architecture at the Russian imperial court, was held on March 13th at the Italiann Embassy in London. The design of a candelabrum and another representing the base of a Doric capital were returned by Dr. Valeria Passetti, Vice-President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), to the Italian Ambassador in London Raffaele Trombetta, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni. The works, held in good faith by RIBA, will return to the Angelo Mai Civic Library in Bergamo, which has the largest collection of works by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi in the world. (9Colonne)
