Virgilio Marchi Explained

Virgilio Marchi
Birth Date:	21 January 1895
Birth Place:	Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Death Date:	30 April 1960
Death Place:	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation:	Architect Art Director
Yearsactive:	1936-1960 (film)

Virgilio Marchi (21 January 1895 – 30 April 1960) was an Italian architect and art director. He designed the sets for more than fifty films during his career. Marchi was stylistically identified with the Futurist movement.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Territorial Militia (1935)
• The Two Sergeants (1936)
• Condottieri (1937)
• Queen of the Scala (1937)
• An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)
• The Marquis of Ruvolito (1939)
• The Count of Brechard (1940)
• A Pilot Returns (1942)
• Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
• Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
• Annabella's Adventure (1943)
• Maria Malibran (1943)
• Desire (1946)
• Lost in the Dark (1947)
• Baron Carlo Mazza (1948)
• Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
• Margaret of Cortona (1950)
• Europe '51 (1952)
• They Were Three Hundred (1952)
• Prisoners of Darkness (1952)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• Article 519, Penal Code (1952)
• Mademoiselle Gobete (1952)
• The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
• Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
• The Bigamist (1956)

Notes and References

1. Sabatino, Michelangelo. Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy. University of Toronto Press, 2011. p.99.