Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States. These festivals are internationally renowned for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival.
Gouache, body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent, and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache has a long history, having been used for at least twelve centuries. It is used most consistently by commercial artists for posters, illustrations, comics, and other design work.
The Palazzo Venezia or Palazzo Barbo, formerly "'Palace of Saint Mark'", is a large early Renaissance palace in central Rome, Italy, situated to the north of the Capitoline Hill. Today the property of the Republic of Italy it houses the National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia. The main (eastern) facade measures 77 metres (253 ft) in length, with a height of about 31 metres (102 ft). The north wing, containing the "Cibo Apartment", extending westwards, measures 122 metres (400 ft) in length. It covers an area of 1.2 hectares and encloses two gardens and the Basilica of Saint Mark. It was built in the present form during the 1450s by Cardinal Pietro Barbo (1417-1471), titular holder of the Basilica of Saint Mark, who from 1464 ruled as Pope Paul II. Barbo, a Venetian by birth as was customary for cardinals of the Basilica of Saint Mark, lived there even as pope and amassed there a great collection of art and antiquities. During the first half of the 20th century it became the residence and headquarters of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who made notable orations from its balcony to huge crowds filling the Piazza Venezia.
Francesco Maselli, also known as Citto Maselli, was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Ludovico De Luigi is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter born and living in Venice, Italy.
Mimmo Paladino is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s.
Arturo Tosi was an Italian painter known best for his landscapes.
Christopher H. Martin is an American artist working with paintings on acrylic and canvas mediums. A self-taught artist, he is known for his signature technique of painting in reverse, using acrylic paint on a clear sheet of acrylic. Martin modernizes the 14th century technique of "Verre Églomisé" to layer acrylic paint on the reverse side of his acrylic canvas in creating his original pieces. In 2006 Martin began working on his third medium, Metallic Prints. Martin has created twenty-two Metallic Print series, totaling two hundred and fifty-one photographs.
Oskar Andrej Kogoj is a Slovene industrial designer.
Marco Risi is an Italian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cinematographer.
Andrea Dalla Costa is an Italian visual artist, art director and film maker.
Paolo De Grandis is an Italian contemporary art curator and president of PDG Arte Communications. He lives currently in Venice.
Ugo Capocchini was an Italian artist. He won many awards throughout his career, and became a Professor at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence in the 1960s. In his birthplace, Barberino Val d'Elsa, a square and a community hall have been named after him.
Vito Bongiorno is an Italian artist known for making art out of charcoal.
Gianmaria Potenza is an Italian artist born in Venice living and working in Venice, Italy.
Emilio Notte was an Italian painter, active in a Futurist style.
Antonio Martinelli is a French-Italian photographer born in Venice, Italy. He currently lives in Paris.
Arduino Colasanti was an Italian Renaissance scholar who served as general director of the Department of Antiquity and Fine Arts in Rome.
Orfeo Reda is an Italian painter and artist.
Motel Office, Acrylic on board, 100x70, 1987.
Marbles, one of the G.Boatto icons; Acrylic on board, 70x100, 1985.
Pencils, another G.Boatto icon; Acrylic on board, 70x50, 1989.
One of the G.Boatto works on Venice: San Barnaba church and canal; Acrylic on canvas, 100x70, 2004.
