Luisa Del Campana - Curriculum - vitae

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• Luisa Nannini Del Campana was born in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) in April 1950. She began studying art seriously after having personally met the painter Dino Migliorini.
  


• 19 March 1978 her first public showing.
  


• 1980: Ponte Vecchio, Carmine church exhibition, Regina Schrecker.
  


• Contact with Archeosofia and its founder Tommaso Palamidessi. She studied symbolism and in particular the Holy Grail.
  


• March 1982: Significant personal show at CEPAC in Prato, presented by Gastone Breddo (Director of the Accademia of Florence) and the sculptor Antonio Berti. The personal show included 50 works and met with great success with both the public and the press.
  


• Experience working with glass: Tommaso Paloscia. The Sacred Art Commission of Florence had her realize a large stained-glass window.
  


• 1985: personal exhibitions.
  


• Max Hufschmith invited her to show her works in his new gallery, the Kunst Studio, in Wintertour, Switzerland; the exhibition followed that of Guttuso.
  


• January 1989: member of the Burckartd International Academy.
  


• June 1992: Exhibition of stained-glass on sacred subjects in the church of the “Borro” at San Giustino, at the Vallombrosa Abbey and at Basilica of the San Alessandro in Fiesole. The show received attention by the news service of RAI3 with broadcast of a journalistic report during the regional news.
  


• Participation/Courses: “Giubileo degli Artisti” (2000), conference on the history and technique of stained-glass; lessons at the Palazzo Spinelli institute for restoration.
  


• Most significant recognition: Participation in the competition to create the missing “eye” for Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.
  


• Careful study of the “grisaille” painting technique in gothic works; the Chartres atelier.
  


• 2002: exhibition at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome.
  


• Exhibition organized in Arezzo, Palazzo Chianini Vincenzi september – october 2007
  


• Malta- La Valletta- Italian Institute of Culture 15-30 may 2008
  


• Orvieto, Palazzo dei Sette 16 maggio - 14 giugno 2009 - Mirabile Mistero edited by Giuliana Serrapede
  

After a number of years dedicated exclusively to artistic glass, she has taken up painting again with great enthusiasm for the subjects which have for some time been the object of her personal and aesthetic attention.


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