Luschi Masaniello Biography
Luschi Masaniello was born in Livorno in 1942. Painting was in his blood and, thanks to his strong graphic skills, he was able to portray on canvas every real vision he saw with great simplicity. His most commonly depicted scenes were the famous bucolic scenes of Tuscany, the spring landscapes, the autumnal and snowy winters, the characteristic views of his city such as old Venice, the old fortress, the disappeared Becolini, the Pontine areas, portraits and more biographies, animal studies, storms at sea, and a variety of subjects, each of which he approached with extreme passion and pictorial force. His painting was characterized by simplicity and modesty, richness of colour, materiality and reality, and he loved to paint from life, in daily contact with nature, people, places and the scents of the earth, with his confident and decisive brushstrokes, full of color and in the style of Macchiaiolo. His numerous masterpieces were created in particular between 1985 and 1994, at the height of his artistic maturity, when art dealers, critics and collectors praised him daily. He held important exhibitions throughout Italy (Florence, Ferrara, Modena, Bologna, Turin, Soave, etc.), which represented the notoriety of this artist, to whom the Episcopal Curia of Livorno even commissioned the famous "Last Supper" for the Cathedral, a painting of considerable size and symbol of his acquired pictorial quality. Many of his works are widely distributed in private collections in Italy and abroad.
