Ferruccio Mataresi (1928-2009) was born in

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and began his artistic career in 1940 with the teaching of the painter

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it continues the study in the Accademia delle Belle Arti of

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and it frequents the study of

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. To

he is the only painter to follow the teachings and the Neoclassic pictorial tide of

that it transfers readapting in the century XIX the painting proper of the Renaissance period. Numerous the portraits by Mataresi by the known of the city of

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and the baritone

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. Of particular aesthetic value and beautiful examples of this artist's pictorial style, are the portrait of the writer and painter

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from 1984 and his sister

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(nephews of the painter

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and friends of Mataresi). Some works are located in public collections and deprived by to quote the positions at the Building of the Quirinale, to the center Rai, and to the Domus Pacis, to the Franciscan Museum modern art to Assisi and to the Museum Civic Giovanni Fattori of Livorno. Bashful artist to lived a solitary life among his few students, to remember the painter Nicola Giusfredi,Nicola Giusfredi
/ref> spending his years in the study of art Scali d'Azeglio to take care of his painting and his pet.

Prizes and Public Works

* 2007, international prize di arte “Le muse” nella 42º edizione, Livorno. * 1993, portrait di Giovanni Paolo II, esposto nel refettorio della Basilica di S. Francesco ad Assisi. * 2005 solo exhibition dal titolo “Arte Sacra e Ritratti”, presso l' Abbazia di San Zeno.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mataresi, Ferruccio Italian artists People from Livorno 1928 births 2009 deaths