![]() ![]() ![]() All the art, anything they could get their hands on, they ran into the lounge,” he said.ĭiBella treasures the old memorabilia from the restaurant - especially family mementos. “We have old family pictures along the walls, all that memorabilia. “The Fire Department, they were wonderful, because as soon as they arrived they went through and grabbed anything they could out of the two main dining rooms that were impacted,” he said. He also was thankful to the Old Saybrook Fire Department for its quick and thorough response. “We as a family have to responsibly figure out how to divide that equitably and properly,” he added. “I’m working on insurance to do the same, and obviously insurance doesn’t cover all the tips the servers, the bus kids, the runners - that’s quite a volume insurance won’t cover,” he noted. “We thought we’d take a little pressure off of him so he could concentrate on fixing his restaurant and getting back up and going as soon as possible,” she said.Īnd the response has been “overwhelming,” she said, adding that “this town is very helpful and they come together in a time of need and as you can see they really came through.”ĭiBella was grateful for the fundraising efforts, which will help his staffers to financially “survive this and also keep their jobs at the restaurant so they can come back.” “So we figured we should give back to them now and help them in a time of need.”įilindara added that DiBella “was feeling really bad that his workers now would be out of work after the holidays - with bills coming in from the holiday spending.” Luigi’s “is a very big staple in the community through hard times,” she said. The GoFundMePage is meant to help Luigi’s staff who suddenly are out of work, she said. Mirsina Filindara, owner of Mirsina’s Restaurant in Old Saybrook, started the GoFundMe page with her daughter Katholiki, who is childhood friends with Julia DiBella, DiBella’s daughter. 3 to help pay restaurant workers who have lost their jobs. While the restaurant is closed, he is hoping to be able to do takeout, as the kitchen was spared.ĭespite the catastrophic damage, the DiBellas were heartened by the swell of community support.Ī fellow restaurateur and friend raised $30,745 as of Jan. He noted that the storm could have caused the breach, possibly freezing the pipes, or the system failed due to age. The cause of the sprinkler failure is unknown at this time, according to DiBella. The water was just pouring down the ceiling, parts of the ceiling had collapsed,” he said. “My oldest, he’s a tough Army guy … and he was crying, he was so upset. “It was a nightmarish thing to witness when you walked in,” he said. “When we got inside - holy moly it was catastrophic.”Īll seven children raced to the restaurant with their parents and took in the ugly scene. “We ran out and everybody was upset and everybody jumped into cars,” DiBella recalled. On Christmas, a local firefighter told his son Dan DiBella, “'You gotta get here right away,’” DiBella recalled. The clean up has begun at Luigi's which sustained heavy damage after flooding at Christmas. The whole scheme was to be decorated with friezes, herms, nudes and putti, in the manner of Annibale Carracci’s Galleria Farnese. ![]() It was to consist of a central scene of St Louis of France in glory, flanked by two smaller scenes of his military triumphs running above the cornice were to be figures of other celebrated French kings, flanked by trophies and captives. The design of the fresco was described by the contemporary biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori. Cardinal Barberini’s interest in the project waned, work came to a halt, and the little that had been executed was replaced in the mid-eighteenth century by rich decorations and a fresco by Charles Joseph Natoire. Sacchi made a start on the frescoes, but illness overtook him and he handed responsibility for the scheme to his pupil Carlo Maratti. The influence of Cardinal Mazarin was instrumental in restoring the fortunes of the Barberini and allowing the return to Rome in 1653 of Francesco, who in gratitude commissioned Andrea Sacchi to fresco the vault of the French national church in Rome, San Luigi dei Francesi. On the death of Pope Urban VIII in 1644, his nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini had to go into exile in France. On the left of the sheet is a study for the seated figure on the left-hand side of the scheme. Five studies for the seated captive figure on the right-hand side of the vault of the church of S Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.
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