"Gods like white above all" Leon Battista Alberti.
Angelo Savelli, an Italian painter who lived in America, who passed away in 1995. A very special, and I daresay, a unique Man, one so sensitive and mediumistic, so romantic and transgressive, so unpredictable and unconventional.

A life intensely lived with the strength of intelligence and love, the two magic ingredients which induced Louis Kahn to write:
"The work of Savelli moves from silence to light Stopping at light and asking of it the barest of presence In it lies the essence of poetry, the essence of the poet"

Of Savelli I jealously preserve that magic key which he donated to me, a key that allows me, now that He is no longer here, as when Hewas alive, to read into his hear and listen to the peaceful melodies that emanated. The melodies that are still alive today in his spirit and which are an authentic moral and ethical guide for me.

Angelo is now with Dante, Virgil, Socrates, and Plato, as he has always wished to be in the other dimension; he leaves us his great work and his irreplaceable and magic memories.

Susanna Argenterio

Tim Ballard

I was thrilled to see the site Angelo Savelli.com and I can't wait totell my friend about it.

Angelo was a good friend of mine from 1979 till his death.
I have many great photo's of him in his NY studio and in Arlington, Texas where I first met him.  I also have  a video tape of him talking about his war - time experience with a German soldier.
This is the only video that I know of Savelli.  I also have about eight prints of his that I would like to find a buyer for as I am afraid that they will be ruined in an upcoming move.

Who are you and what is your connection with Angelo?

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,
Tim Ballard

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Peter Lundberg

This is in response to your Angelo Savelli homepage.
I never knew him myself, though I met him once, and I grew up withsome of his pieces on my walls.

My mother met him in Venice in about 1951 and they kept in touch for some time.
She was a fashion designer and travelled to Italy and France and she and savelli also met in Rome, where she had a lot of happy memories from the artists´collective at Via Margutta.

In 1963 mymother and I went to the USA and we met briefly with savelli, who showed us his atelier and also gave us another piece - one of his white things - that now hangs on my wall.

My mother has since suffered from a depression that won´t go away and she has lately begun to think back to her younger and happier days, spending a lot of time reading Savelli´s leters and looking at his pieces.

I printed out your pages for her which made her both sentimental and happy.
I know that somewhere on the net I found reference toan art book by and about Savelli. Do you know about this one? I would like to be able o present to myother somemore savelli material , to let her re-live a more joyful period of her life.


yours/ Peter Lundberg

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Maggie Soliz

Thank you for taking time to let me know of Angelos passing.... I have thought of him over the years but neglected to let him know how much he meant to me.

From what I have read on the website... he was loved and chrished by many.

I will keep you e-mail address... as we plan to go to Italy, hopefully in the near future.  I will let you know, possibly we could share a glass of wine in his honor.


Respectfully,  Maggie Soliz

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