Portrait of a Knight Painting

I was born in Lugano to an old Lombard family of military and industrial traditions. I am basically a portraitist painter, specialist in every technique: oil, tempera, watercolour, majolica, charcoal, saguine pencil etc. I was a pupil of futurist master Sibò (Pier Luigi Bossi, 1907-2000), who was a disciple of Sienese painters Arturo Viligiardi (1869-1936) and Dario Neri (1895-1958). Through the study of heraldic style in art history I have been improving my quality of drawing. I have also been painting a scenographic series of heraldic standards for castles and historical houses interiors. As the painter is a vocation and not a profession, I graduated in Languages and then Art History at the University of Milan. Later I earned a Phd in art history in Lausanne University. I was then editor, writer and last editor-in-chief of the historical publishing house FMR/Franco Maria Ricci, author of books and essays for FMR, Mondadori-Electa, White Star/National Geographic etc. including Palazzo Altieri; Bologna; Castles of the world; Superga segreta etc. I am a member of Società Dalmata di Storia Patria (Venice), Società Italiana di Studi Araldici (Turin), Collegio Araldico Romano (Rome), Society of Heraldic Arts and the Robert Louis Stevenson Club (Edinburgh).