Francesco Mori (born March 28, 1975) is an

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painter.

Biography

Mori was born in

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the m ...

, Italy. Now an emerging painter and

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, art historian and scholar of

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, Francesco Mori began his artistic career self-taught at an early age. During his university years he attended the workshops of Samuel Vanni and Roberto Altmann, both heirs of the master

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(1910-1988), perfecting his drawing and painting techniques. In collaboration with Roberto Altmann, Mori teaches art history, fresco, drawing and oil painting. He also exercises the art of calligraphy and illumination and participates in the courses of the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana (ACI), attending Italian and European master calligraphers such as Anna Ronchi, Klaus Peter Schaffel and Ivano Ziggiotti.

Works

His artistic debut, crowning the theoretical and practical research of previous years, took place in 2006, when he was commissioned to paint a reproduction of the famous window by

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for the "fenestra rotunda magna", dating from 1288, in

Siena Cathedral Siena Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. It was the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Siena, and ...

. Mori's copy has now replaced the original, which is preserved in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. In July 2007,

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commissioned the design and execution of the windows for the rebuilt

Noto Cathedral Noto Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di Noto; La Chiesa Madre di San Nicolò) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Noto in Sicily, Italy. Its construction, in the style of the Sicilian Baroque, began in the early 18th century and was completed in 1776. It ...

, which deals with the theme of the Word of God and the

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. On this occasion, Sgarbi said of him: "A simple and sensitive artist who offered an almost iconic representation in the spirit of a reborn Duilio Cambellotti." He has also made many significant contributions to Grosseto Cathedral.

Exhibitions

* 2009: "Race Against Time", an exhibition of paintings and graphics, gallery events, Grosseto * 2010: "The Return", an exhibition of paintings, gallery events, Grosseto * 2011: participation in the exhibition "The Shadow of the divine in contemporary art: Artists from Noto and elsewhere",

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, Italy Pavilion

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mori, Francesco 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 21st-century Italian painters 1975 births Living people 20th-century Italian male artists 21st-century Italian male artists