Valerio D’Ospina was born in Taranto in 1980. In 1999 he received an artistic diploma from Liceo Artistico Statale “Lisippo” in Taranto, where he was first introduced to the world of art. In November 1999 he moved to Florence to further his artistic studies. There he enrolled in his first painting course under the instruction of Professor R.Giovannelli in the Accademia di Belle Arti. During his stay in Florence, he assiduously visited museums where he learned the technique of the great masters and was given permission to replicate original works of art in the Palazzo Pitti Museum. He also visited the major Italian artistic capitols frequenting, with particular interest, the museums, art fairs and art biennals. In 2003, he moved to Paris for a short while where he studied firsthand the masterpieces of his favorite local artists. After his return to Florence, he began to work in an antique‐painting restoration studio under the restorer Maurizio Bazzini, who gave him insight to the “character” of antique paintings. On February 25, 2005, after preparing an experimental thesis in the study of “fisiognomica”, Valerio graduated with a degree in Painting. Impressed by the complex study of the thesis, and the correlation to his final paintings, the commission presiding over Valerio’s lecture presented him with 110 cum laude out of a possible 110 for his outstanding effort. Upon obtaining his degree, in September 2006 he enrolled in the COBASLID (a 2‐year statal course to become a professor of art) in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence.... After his acceptance, he began an internship teaching pictorial discipline in the Liceo Artistico “L.B. Alberti”. Since 2009 Valerio is established in the US where he lives and works, and is ranked by several distinguished national and international art magazines as one of the most significant painters of cityscapes and industrial scenarios, who live and work in America. (http://www.valeriodospina.com/#!vuoto/c1d7v) undefined

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