Biography

Edoardo La Francesca – Painter

Edoardo La Francesca was born in Trapani in 1991. In 2009, he graduated from the "Michelangelo Buonarroti" art school in Trapani. After moving to Palermo, he began to study painting as a self-taught and, in parallel, to undertake university studies to become a Restorer of Cultural Heritage, so as to be able to study in more depth the executive technique and the materials used by the old masters. In these years he deepened, self-taught, the research on ancient painting, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, thanks also to the possibility provided by the university to be able to study and work directly on the paintings preserved in the most important Palermitan museums.

In 2016, graduated in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage; he moved to Malta where he began working as a painter, and in parallel as a restorer in one of the largest restoration companies in Malta where he had the opportunity to work on artists of the caliber of Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano, Anton Favray and Giuseppe Calì.

Attualmente Edoardo lavora come artista a tempo pieno; la sua arte è fortemente influenzata dalla pittura barocca (in particolare Caravaggio), e presenta anche riferimenti alla pittura accademica di fine XIX secolo. Tra le commissioni più importanti si possono annoverare il Ritratto del Cavaliere di Malta Roger de Giorgio per Casa Lanfreducci a Valletta, il ritratto ufficiale di S.E.R. il Cardinale Mario Grech per la Sala Capitolare della Cattedrale di Gozo (Malta) e la pala d ‘altare rappresentante il Battesimo di Cristo nel Giordano per la Chiesa di San Giuseppe di Castellammare del Golfo (TP) in Italia.