Novità su Agostino Gerli e la sua impresa familiare, protagonista della transizione estetica neoclassica

News on Agostino Gerli and his family company. His role as protagonist of the Neoclassical aesthetic transition · The paper shows an unrealeased part of Agostino Gerli’s biography. Gerli was an important and unconventional artist, a decorator, interior designer, and inventor, active in Lombardy between the xviii and xix centuries. The paper analyzes Gerli’s long period of commitment with the marquis Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone and the following one, with his favorite nephew marquis Carlo Camillo Carcano. This study on Gerli’s biography uses critically unpublished documents that offer a vivid portrayal of the commitment of the local and city nobility in a period of great changes of taste in arts.