Win a work by a great artist and help Civil Defense: the Academy of St. Luke's initiative

TheAccademia di San Luca, one of Italy’s oldest and most prestigious art academies, is launching an initiative to help Civil Defense during the fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic: it is called #DaiUnSegno and is a lottery in which works by important names in Italian art, from Giulio Paolini to Franco Mulas, from Guido Strazza to Gea Casolaro, from Grazia Varisco to Pablo Echaurren, from Nicola Samorì to Tomaso Binga, from Achille Perilli to Gilberto Zorio, from Maurizio Nannucci to Gianfranco Baruchello and many others, among historicized artists and young artists, can be won. The lottery mechanism is very simple: each work is paired with a number, and the number is purchased with a 50-euro share. One can start buying one’s share from today, March 27: the week after the closing, set for May 1, there will be a draw, held at the Academy’s headquarters in Rome and in the presence of a notary.

To participate, therefore, one must purchase one’s share by paying 50 euros by bank transfer made out to the National Academy of St. Luke, to IBAN IT52K 01030 03200 00000 9007632, with the reason #GiveAsign, obligatorily specifying one’s data (first name, last name, telephone number, email), all by May 1. The transfer receipt should be kept.

The entire proceeds will be donated to Civil Defense: participating artists and Foundations have in fact chosen to donate their works. The works in some cases have been created for the occasion, in others have instead been chosen from the artist’s archives, are in A4 format (about 30 x 20 cm), and the technique is free.

“This initiative,” explains Francesco Cellini, president of the Accademia di San Luca, “gives participants the opportunity to access, in such a dark period, a small light: a work of art, a piece of our heritage that is also a testimony to the perennial need for beauty.”

For more info you can read the rules on the Accademia di San Luca website. These are the artists who have so far joined: Giulio Paolini, Franco Mulas, Giuseppe Modica, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Paolo Portoghesi, Michele Tocca, Nado Canuti, Giovanna De Sanctis, Beniamino Servino, Guido Strazza, Franco Purini, Grazia Varisco, Giulio Catelli, Pasquale Santoro, Gea Casolaro, Michele Beccu, Roberto Pietrosanti, Bruno Muzzolini, Laura Thermes, Rolando Tessadri, Franz Prati, Donata Lazzarini, Paolo Melis, Giulia Napoleone, Giangiacomo D’Ardia, Maurizio Nannucci, Stefano Cordeschi, Simona Weller, Paolo Desideri, Giorgio Griffa, Francesco Cellini, Nunzio Di Stefano, Gianni Braghieri, Romano Burelli, Ruggero Savinio, Tomaso Monestiroli, Namsal Siedlcki, Pietro Coletta, Andrea Jemolo, Enrico Bordogna, Dario Passi, Igino Legnaghi, Gianni Piacentino, Ruggero Lenci, Guido Morpurgo, Enrico Della Torre, Achille Perilli, Gilberto Zorio, Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola, Marco Tirelli, Tomaso Binga, Nicoletta Cosentino, Giuliano Vangi, Paolo Icaro, Renato Rizzi, Gianni Dessì, Mario Raciti, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Fabrizio Ciappina, Claudio Verna, Aldo Aymonio, Vincenzo Gaetaniello, Luigi Mainolfi, Pablo Echaurren, Archivio Antonio Monestiroli, Francesco Collotti, Nevio Mengacci, Paolo Zermani, Alessandro Finocchiaro, Tommaso Cascella, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Riccardo Cordero, Angelo Torricelli, Marina Sasso, Giuseppe Pasquali, Clotilde Ceriana Mayneri, Giorgios Papaevangeliu, Cherubino Gambardella, Guglielmo Castelli, Ernesto Porcari, Luigi Franciosini, Francesco Preverino, Marco Petreschi, Matteo Benedetti, Helen Broms Sandberg, Angela Guiffrey, Luisa Gentile, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Francesco Barocco, Sandro De Alexandris, Alberto Ferlenga, Laura Barbarini, Roberto Casiraghi, Emilio Battisti, Massimo Kaufmann, Serse, Luciano Semerani, Stefano Arienti, Marcello Sestito, Marco Cingolani, Carlo Lorenzetti, Pietro Cascella, Francesco Venezia, Marta Mancini, Giancarlo Pediconi, Alberto Garutti, Gianfranco Baruchello, Paolo Canevari, Elisabetta Benassi, Nicoletta Brega, Maurizio Savini, H.H. Lim, Francesco Collotti, Marina Paris, Mario Cresci, Daniela Perego, Paolo Martellotti, Lucilla Catania, Marco Colazzo, Francesco Cervelli, Massimo Mazzone, Alberto Di Fabio, Andrea Aquilanti, Martha Boyden, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Massimo Luccioli, Nicola Samorì, Pietro Ruffo, Iginio De Luca, Felice Levini, Giuseppe Salvadori, Donatella Spaziani, Pasquale Polidori, Thomas Braida, Carlo Guaita, Matteo Fato.

Pictured: Accademia di San Luca, the hall of legacies.

Win a work by a great artist and help Civil Defense: the Academy of St. Luke's initiative

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