Maria Nardo paintress - lives and works to Rapallo (GE) Italy - the study is in Via Aurelia Occidentale 12 and to Vence in avenue Emile Hugues 25 (France).
She has exposed in several cities and parts of the world.

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Maria Nardo is born in Palmanova (Udine),
she attended the Academy of Venice, Academy of San Marco.

Enrolled in the Archivio "Arte Italiana".
Member of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.

As a young girl she setfled in Liguria, where she came into contact
with and worked for the local artistic world.

She alternated this with stays abroad. In Paris she painted several
views of the Sacré-Coeur in the Atelier of Montpar
nasse, gettmg in
touch with the artistic world and regularly visiting the following museums,
where she found new inspiration: Louvre, Orsay, Beaubourg, Picasso, Rodin.

Other sojourns tookher to the Côte d'Azur. She has an atelier in Vence,
where Chagall, Renoir, Picasso and Matisse stayed.

Other favourite habitual visitings are:
Picasso Museum in Antibes, Matisse Museum in Nice and Légere Museum in Biot.

She often stops at the Collette (Cagnes-sur-Mer), the villa where
Auguste Renoir lived which creates in her new emotions and stimuli.

She had long stays in New York at the Greenwich Village, where she got
in touch with the Avantgarde of the city and visited the Metropolitan and
Guggenheim Museum. In New York she exhibited at the World Art Gallery
and at the Columbus Circle Palace. Later she moved to California giving way
to a further creative spur. There she visited the Paul Getty Musemum. She
exhibited at Juarez Gallery in Sunset Boulevard 8600, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

Other journeys took her to Russia. In Moscow she visited the Pushkin
Museum and the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).

She painted portraits of important people such as: Cardinal Giuseppe Siri,
the actress Anna Proclemer, the actor Giorgio Albertazzi and others.

She drew several pictures for the daily newspaper Il Secolo XIX She
illustrated the monthly magazine Oggi e Domani.

In the 80's she met the "Maestro" Michele Cascella and regularly
went to his studio becoming his only pupil.
She has been following him during his several moves to his ateliers:
Milan, Portofino, Ortona.
These happy meetings have been going on for ten years in which
"Maestro" and pupil have been portraying each other.

On various occasions they exhibit together in several galleries.



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