This paper examines the artwork produced by Angiolo Del Santo for the magazine 'Vita d'Arte', a periodical published in Siena from 1908 to 1913 under the management of Fabio Bargagli Petrucci. Petrucci attached considerable importance to the magazine's layout and illustration, which was entrusted to such artists as Alberto Martini, Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona, Augusto Sezanne, Giovanni Battista Carpanetto, Arturo Viligiardi, Oscar Ghiglia, Alfredo Baruffi and Francesco Nonni. 'Vita d'Arte' was in continual dialogue with magazines like 'L'Art Décoratif', 'Emporium', 'Il Leonardo' and 'Il Marzocco'. Del Santo produced the cover illustrations for the November and December 1909 issues as well as the twelve covers for the year 1910 which, related to each other through a series of interpretative references, together form a Symbolist cycle.
There has also been examination of the more well-known artwork of Del Santo, a pupil of Bistolfi, as well as his sculptural work, highlighting its many and varied stylistic influences, ranging from Art Nouveau to Symbolism, from Michelangiolism filtered through the sculpture of Rodin, to Wildt, Kienerk and De Carolis.
Another fundamental aspect has been the study of correspondence between the director Bargagli Petrucci and Ettore Cozzani in September 1909. In these letters, Cozzani, future director of the magazine 'L'Eroica' which came out in 1911 with a cover by Del Santo, recommends the latter to the Sienese director for the illustrations of 'Vita d'Arte'. Considering the relationship between Cozzani, Bargagli Petrucci and Del Santo, we may see Del Santo as the link connecting 'Vita d'Arte' and 'L'Eroica', one of the most important late 19th-/early 20th-century magazines before the Avant-Garde movements.