Luigi Servolini

Luigi Servolini (Livorno, 10 March 1906 - Livorno, 21 September 1981) was an Italian engraver, art critic, art historian, librarian and translator, one of the great masters of engraving.

The son of the painter Carlo Servolini, with his brother Alfredo, an art historian in the field of the history of printing and graphic arts, who was among other things director of the Federiciana Library, he also shared the collaboration on the art series Rivelazioni Rivendicazioni of Edizioni del Liocorno in Milan.

After graduating in Literature from the University of Pisa, he went on to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, later specialising in Medieval and Modern Art History at the University of Florence. Since then, he has held various roles within the Italian academic world. In 1935, he promoted the creation of a Museum of Xylography in Carpi, the birthplace of the master Ugo da Carpi (Carpi c. 1480 - Rome 1532), inviting Italian xylographers to send works, which today form an important nucleus of the Museum itself, inaugurated in 1937.
Together with Carlo Carrà, he founded the Association of Engravers of Italy in 1955.

His woodcuts are characterised by a classical cut and formal order. Some of his works are 'Beata Solitudo' (1933), 'Abbazia di San Mercuriale a Forlì' (1950), the lithograph 'Fremiti' (1955), 'San Francesco e il lupo' (1964), 'Magia del bosco' (1965), 'Luigi Pirandello' (1967), 'La maga Circe' (1967), 'I due Cervi' (1975).