Gerardo Dottori

Dottori's' principal output was the representation of landscapes and visions of Umbria, mostly viewed from a great height.

Among the most famous of these are Umbrian Spring and Fire in the City, both from the early 1920s; this last one is now housed in the Museo civico di Palazzo della Penna in Perugia, with many of Dottori's other works.

He was admitted as a young man to the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, and was employed at the same time by an antique dealer.

In 1915 he fought in World War I, at the same time writing Parole in libertà ("Words in freedom") which he published under the name G. Voglio.

He was one of the signatories of the 1929 Aeropainting Manifesto, signed also by Benedetta Cappa, Fortunato Depero, Fillìa, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Enrico Prampolini and others, who are among its major representatives.

In 1941 he wrote the Manifesto of Umbrian Aeropainting in which he proposed that the essence of his Futurism lay in the representation of mystically-inclined landscapes.