Giuseppe Mincato Biography
Giuseppe Mincato, born on 17 June 1882 into a bourgeois family, showed a strong interest in drawing from an early age. He began regular studies and after a few years he also obtained the art of painting: for this reason he was welcomed into the studio of his father's friend, the painter Tomaso Pasquotti who kept him with him until 1902, considering him among his best students. After completing this long internship he will go to Venice to attend the Academy of Fine Arts and it will be here that Mincato will cultivate the most significant friendships for his artistic training: Alessandro Milesi, Ettore Tito, Vincenzo Irolli, Luigi Nono. In fact, these will be his teachers, from whom he will learn that the task of the painter "is to see the things of the divine nature really as they are and to paint them in such a beautiful and perfect way as not to offend the creator". Twenty years old, he fulfilled his military obligation in Rome and, having met in Schio the famous scientist Almerico Da Schio (1836-1930) who built the first Italian airship and being fascinated by him, he asked to be assigned to the photographic section of the Military Engineers for the surveys hot air balloons. In Rome, at the request of the civil authorities, with the consent of the Vatican, he will have the opportunity to access the Vatican Library to discover some very ancient illuminated manuscripts which, not being able to be directly photographed, will be faithfully and meticulously copied by him in watercolor and then reproduced photographically .
