Oil on canvas, 60×47 cm 1930s Saturnia, Polo Culturale Pietro Aldi This portrait gives us the face of an old man of Maremma, probably an inhabitant of Manciano, whose name has not come down to us. The painter captures his facial features with a photographic eye, presenting an intense elderly

Oil on canvas, 87×67.5 cm First decade of the twentieth century Grosseto, Collection of the Province of Grosseto The personage shown here, a Parliamentary Deputy and the first president of the Provincial Council, was well known and highly respected in early twentieth-century Grosseto. His characteristic severe physiognomy, captured by Pascucci

Oil on canvas, 63.2×48.7 cm including the frame 1930s Manciano, private collection Arturo Pascucci was Paride’s much younger relative – Arturo was born in 1895 – whom the painter held in high esteem and with whom he was very close. As director of a branch of the Banco di Roma,

Oil on canvas, 65×60 cm Circa 1933 Signed at lower right Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano This smiling portrait of a young boy proud of his role as trombonist in the town band is captured by Pascucci with a well-chosen, non-traditional photographic framing and rich pasty colours applied

Oil on canvas, 123.3×200 cm Before 1934 Signed legibly on the edge of the bench; another incomplete signature is present at the bottom far right corner Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano On the back of the painting’s original stretcher was written “Carnival scene,” while in 1934 the work

Oil on cardboard, 59×83 cm 1927-1928 Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano The work seems to be one of the early ideas for the important painting which won the Spranger Prize at the Ussi Competition in 1929, now in the church of San Leonardo in Manciano. At the centre

Oil on canvas, 174×115 cm 1922-1923 Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano The sitter here is Concetta Garbati, the sister of the deceased hero, who with other family members was portrayed in the large canvas of The Hero’s Return which won the Spranger Prize in 1924 in the fourth

Oil on canvas, 135×173 cm Before 1916 Siena, Collection of the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni Presented in 1916 in Rome with the title First Suspicions, this painting presents an after-dinner scene of a family around a dining table on which the child has already fallen asleep. The father,

Oil on canvas, 44.5×53.5 cm Datable circa 1905-1915 Manciano, private collection Like the preceding painting, this one too seems to be preparatory for a larger picture, which we do not know and may never have been painted. In a kitchen crowded with copper pitchers and pots, a carefully groomed young

Oil on canvas, 65×51.5 cm Before 1914 Manciano, private collection This attractive genre scene, painted according to the stylistic principles of international realism, seems to evoke the seventeenth-century Dutch tradition in offering the image of a woman intent on her work in a domestic interior illuminated only by the feeble