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“As a child I scribbled on walls and notebooks, and all my life I have continued to do the same on canvases and cardboard,” this short handwritten note is one of the many notes in the documentation of Vincenzo Irolli's Private Archive, kept in Naples. Since 2017, the archive was kindly made available to Enzo Savoia, director of Galleria Bottegantica, Milan, and Monica Castellarin, an art historian, by the Neapolitan painter's heirs.

Their careful study of the collection, which also included numerous photographs of hitherto unknown works, revealed previously unpublished aspects of the Neapolitan artist's family and professional life that contributed to a full understanding of the warm, luminous enchantment of his painting.

The Vincenzo Irolli Archive is a cultural, nonprofit association that, in addition to the professional figures of Enzo Savoia and Monica Castellarin, relies on the collaboration of Arianna Splendore, a restorer in Milan.

This means that the analysis of the works submitted for evaluation by the Vincenzo Irolli Archive is discussed by different experts who verify the formal and documentary aspects of each work, carefully considering the techniques used and the supports chosen.