Born in Basel in 1916, to an Italian father, Pietro Giovannetti, from Monterubbiano[1] – in the Marche region – and a mother of French origin, Eugenie Rosé,[2] Luigi Pericle Giovannetti attended an art academy at the age of sixteen, but soon he left and became self-taught.
In December 2016, the property was purchased by his neighbours,[8] and that's when the existence of paintings and inks, as well as unpublished documents was discovered.
In 1958 Giovannetti wrote, in collaboration with Clive King, the volume Hamid of Aleppo[17] and he also produced the illustrations.
[16] In 1959 Giovannetti, signing himself Luigi Pericle, began a collaboration with Peter G. Staechelin, an art collector from Basel, who acquired several of the artist's works for his own collection.
In 1965, Hess organized an itinerant solo exhibition, displaying a selection of 50 works, in several British museums, including: York,[26] Newcastle, Hull, Bristol,[27] Cardiff and Leicester.
Distributed by Istituto Geografico de Agostini (Catalogue) Chiara Gatti, Luigi Pericle: Beyond the visible, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale 2019 (ISBN 9788836643073)