Portrait of Beatrice Pitò Weill Schott

Beatrice "Bice" Pitò (1876-1943), Neapolitan, married Dr. Aldo Weill Schott, very rich and belonging to a powerful family of bankers, passionate about car races, who graduated in medicine to help others and certainly not to earn from live or make a career. Medical captain during the First World War, he followed Baldo Rossi with the first medical-surgical field ambulance in the area of ​​operations. Meanwhile Bice is a Red Cross volunteer in military hospitals. Together they find themselves, always as volunteers, caring for and assisting the wounded in the Zonda Pavilion of the Ospedale Maggiore. "Bice", widowed, moved to Rome, always dealing with assistance and charitable institutions. In her will, she left a million lire to the Piccole Suore dei Poveri di Napoli (Little Sisters of the Poor of Naples) and 300,000 lire to the hospital, to be allocated to improvements and sanitary facilities for the Zonda Pavilion, "in memory of his beloved Aldo". The commemorative portrait is entrusted, three years after the death of the benefactor, to Raul Viviani who performs a work in neo-divisionist style; the pose and the face recall a photographic snapshot.