Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 drawing of young man While deeply problematic on so

While deeply problematic on so very many levels

cheerful and charming and most definitely one of a kind

and paint on paper

attached by an old iron nail

An lip of grout around edges as pictured

Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 drawing of young man While deeply problematic on soI purchased this 1952 photo ID card because I liked the looks of him, and the fact that he was from Florence and had come to the University of Chicago to study I imagined a young architect wanting to immerse in Mies van der Rohe. (I love photo ID cards for this reason, providing just the right combination of information to imagine whole lives.) But as I was uploading photos here I decided to search for him, and turns out his real life was even more