Luciano De Vita

Luciano De Vita was an Italian painter, engraver, set designer and lecturer. Born in Ancona, De vita arrived in Bologna in the first post-war period, after having actively participated in the Second World War and having suffered the dramatic consequences. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Giorgio Morandi. From 1962 he taught in Milan at the Brera Academy, while in 1975 he returned to Bologna where he obtained the same chair of engraving that had been Morandi's from 1930 to 1956. De Vita also actively dedicated himself to the theater, overseeing sets and costumes for shows that were also staged at La Scala in Milan. An example is the Turandot curated by Raoul Grassilli.

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