About artist
Renato Trevisan (1945 - 2013) is an artist from the Veneto region in the province of Padua. He attended the Salesian Professional School of Graphics at Colle D. Bosco (Asti) and graduated in 1965 as a Graphic Technician and Master Artistic Binder and Gilder.
He has always been a passionate lover of art, and for several decades he has dedicated himself to the study and reproduction of works of art on wood: the now famous "Florentine Tables".
At the school of the great master craftsmen of Florence, he successfully perfected new techniques using and patenting the use of "Copper Leaf" in addition to Gold and Silver. The method was applied to reproductions of non-sacred works of art: artistic nudes, mythological allegories, still lifes, for which copper is particularly suitable, giving a particular bright colour.
Gifted with great ability and inventiveness, he first experimented with and then consolidated the technique of Gold, Silver and Copper Creting, which differs from the traditional type and gives brilliance and luminosity to the reproduced works, further enhancing the images. Some images are reproduced in "UNICUM" on chestnut, larch or exotic antique wood boards. These boards are prepared with gold chalk and rabbit glue according to the canons of Byzantine Art. Finally, to complete the work, the boards are worked with hand engraving of friezes, punches and wheels.
The Master has successfully experimented with the use of new materials such as plaster, porphyry, old roof tiles, Tuscan tiles, terracotta tiles, cork and jute cloth.
He has received many awards at numerous personal and collective exhibitions and craft exhibitions, not only in the Triveneto but also at national level.
In 1994 he held a personal exhibition at the Municipal Library of Villafranca Padovana and in 1996 he took part in the first art exhibition "La donna al Centro dell'Arte" at Palazzo Polcastro. In January 1995 he exhibited his works in the Vatican City at the "Centro Russia Ecumenica" and in July 1996 he was received at a General Audience by Pope John Paul II, to whom he donated one of his works. Many of his panels have found a prestigious site in various churches in the Padovano area and in private collections throughout Italy. A work by Maestro Trevisan, of majestic dimensions, is still present, since 1998, in the Parish Church S.Maria Assunta of Rubano -PD-, visible above the organ, representing Ghirlandaio's Last Supper.