Collezione Maramotti biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom. Between 2006 and 2016 the winners of the prize were: Margaret Salmon; Hannah Rickards; Andrea Büttner; Laure Prouvost; Corin Sworn; and Emma Hart. Collezione Maramotti The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy. It contains some two hundred works, and is open to visitors by appointment only. It also organises temporary exhibitions. Among the artists
Achille Vertunni entertained the crowned heads of Europe, renowned musicians as well as political figures such as General La Marmora. Tragically, the constant use of lead-based pigments, which, like many painters he mixed by hand, gradually poisoned the artist, who suffered progressive paralysis over the final 20 years of his life. His wife Guendalina, and his two youngest daughters, Giuseppina and Pia, cared for the painter until his death, in 1897. Among his pupils were Pio Joris and Pietro Barucci. Among Vertunni's works are: Achille Vertunni Achille Vertunni (Naples, March 1826 –1897) was an Italian painter. Vertunni was a Neapolitan nobleman who