Agostino Arrivabene

About

Agostino Arrivabene is an Italian contemporary painter born in 1967 in Rivolta d'Adda, Cremona, who has dedicated his career to reviving traditional painting techniques and merging the poetics of past masters with contemporary artistic vision. Rather than pursuing formal academic training, which he found unsatisfying, Arrivabene became largely self-taught, touring Europe to study old masters and meticulously researching historical painting methods, including the grinding of pigments like lapis lazuli, indigo, and cinnabar, and techniques such as mischtechnik used by Renaissance and Northern European artists. Living and working in a seventeenth-century iron-gated house outside Milan, Arrivabene has developed a distinctive visionary style characterized by symbolic language, surrealist elements, and references spanning from Renaissance and Baroque painting to ancient mythology, creating works that exist outside conventional time and history.

Visionary surrealism with symbolic language, blending Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary elements; characterized by enchanted and magical atmospheres, esotericism, and timeless imagery