Artwork Title: Annetta and Alberto

Annetta and Alberto

Giovanni Giacometti

…like his father, Giovanni Giacometti married a woman who was able to better his condition in life. An excellent cook, fastidious housekeeper, and vigilant holder of purse strings, she assured the family's well-being and comfort during the years before Giovanni's paintings began to sell. She was a woman of indomitable resolve and principle, went to church regularly, and held a stern view of propriety. Yet she was not provincial or narrow-minded. She read the newspapers and her house was well supplied with books. She loved talk, especially a good argument, and had a ready sense of humor. Knowing what she thought about most things, including art, she never hesitated to speak her mind. …Giovanni may have been a mild-mannered, temperate, and unassuming man, but, like his father, he proved to be a potent husband. Three months after their wedding his wife became pregnant, and at one o'clock in the morning on the 10th of October 1901, their first child, a son, was born. The happy parents named him Giovanni Alberto Giacometti. Because his father's name was also Giovanni, the child was never called anything but Alberto by his parents or by anyone else, and the name certainly suited him, for it means illustrious through nobility. In time, everyone, and even he, may have forgotten that Alberto's first name was Giovanni, but the fact--and its significance--remained. [From Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord, found on Googlebooks.
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