Giorgina Venosta – Portraits: Giorgina and Guido Somarè

After her separation from Bernardo Caprotti, Giorgina for a long time found a cherished companion in Guido Somarè, a painter as talented as his brother Sandro, both descended from a dynasty of painters and artists (on their mother’s side, they were the nephews of Cesare and Guido Tallone, prominent figures in the Scapigliatura movement and Lombard portraiture between the 19th and 20th centuries). Sandro owns a house in Greece, in Lindos, where he regularly hosts his brother and Giorgina along with his children, Giuseppe and Violetta. The summers they spend there remain a magical recollection of peaceful and joyful moments, captured in countless snapshots of leisure and carefreeness and in Giuseppe’s memories—he loved Guido dearly and received the same in return, finding in him the affectionate and supportive father figure that Bernardo, for many reasons, either did not know how or was unable to be.

Bibliography:

G. CAPROTTI, Le ossa dei Caprotti. Una storia italiana, Milano, 2024/3.