WIDOW OF ITALIAN PAINTER ANSELMO FRANCESCONI GIFTED 18-TH CENTURY EXHIBITS TO ARMENIAN STEPANAVAN MUSEUM

A resident of Milan Margarita Tovmasian, the widow of Italian artist Anselmo Francesconi presented the museum of the Armenian town of Stepanavan with a number of exhibits of the middle of the 18-th century. Among the exhibits there are 30 lithographs of the illustrations made by Persian painter Aga Mirza Asad Ollah to the History of Alexander the Great (1852-1854) and 30 needleworks (the so-called molases), the works of the ancient American Indians. As reported in the press office of the Armenian MFA, the ceremony took place on May 22 in the Armenian House of Milan with the presence of Armenian Ambassador to Italy Gagik Baghdasarian.