“Adele was the sister of Piero Portaluppi, the architect who designed a number of important buildings in Milan, such as Villa Necchi Campiglio, the Civic Planetarium in the gardens of Porta Venezia, and the Arengario building. The family belonged to the good society of Milan. (…)”. (p. 81).
One of her most beautiful photographs is a sort of ‘generational portrait’: Adele is in the centre between her daughter Luisa Quintavalle, holding her daughter Giorgina Venosta, and a third woman identifiable as Luisa Gadda Portaluppi, Adele’s mother, Milan, April 1942.
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