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Arnaldo dell'Ira (March 21, 1903 – January, 1943), born in Livorno, was an Italian Architect with an impressive body of drawings made with different techniques (charcoal sketches, line drawings in India ink, watercolor or shaded graphite plates, colored crayon, tempera or with colored inks) and of different scopes (from the big perspective views, the preparatory sketches, often very accurate, collected in notebooks distinct from the color of the cover, to the drawings). His work well represents Italian architectural culture between the wars in all its components (first secessionists , futurist and Art Deco, later rationalists and classicists). In Rome he was hired as a draftsman with the architectural firm of Angiolo Mazzoni (1930–33) and later (1933–42) of Marcello Piacentini, the most important architect of this period in Italy. During World War II Arnaldo Dell'Ira died in the battle of Don river (Soviet Union, January 1943).