{"id":526,"date":"2025-08-29T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claudiabettega.com\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:30:04","slug":"biografia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.claudiabettega.com\/en\/biografia\/","title":{"rendered":"biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"526\" class=\"elementor elementor-526\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-element elementor-element-e398d75 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e398d75\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;shape_divider_top&quot;:&quot;triangle-asymmetrical&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shape elementor-shape-top\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-negative=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 100\" preserveaspectratio=\"none\">\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" d=\"M738,99l262-93V0H0v5.6L738,99z\"\/>\n<\/svg>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-636931e elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"636931e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc170fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bc170fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Biography<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7d8f98 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d7d8f98\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af55c59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"af55c59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">When I was in elementary school, there was a history lesson on the Middle Ages in which our teacher used Ambrogio Lorenzetti\u2019s painting Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government to describe the rural and urban work of that era.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">I was enchanted as I watched the slides, each showing a detail of the fresco\u2014especially the city walls, with their crenellated buildings and the workers busy constructing a roof\u2026<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The teacher was explaining the image, but I wasn\u2019t listening \u2014 I was contemplating Beauty.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">This episode is an example.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">In middle school, I was very interested in learning to draw.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">To me, it was like Magic\u2026 being able to recreate with my own hands an image identical to reality, or to copy without formal mistakes, or to draw from imagination\u2014transferring my ideas from mind to paper with precision\u2014meant possessing an immeasurable treasure.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">So I chose to attend art school.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">During high school, at the art school, I came across a Hollywood film that told the story of a New York artist.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The paintings used in that film were by a certain Francesco Clemente\u2014or at least, that\u2019s the name that appeared in the closing credits.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">I looked for material on this artist in the library, and I searched the Internet too\u2026 it was the late nineties, and I found almost nothing.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">They had struck me deeply for their distinctive style.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">After finishing high school, I continued my studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice \u2014 not to perfect my drawing, but to learn anew. I was trying to understand the structure of things and to make them innovative. I wanted to be innovative, to create something new<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Those years in Venice were very valuable: I loved observing what my classmates were painting in the studio. I didn\u2019t become innovative, but I learned to refine my taste for Beautiful things.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">I graduated with top marks with a thesis on Francesco Clemente.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Throughout my life, the vividly colorful paintings of my father have always accompanied me.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">A na\u00efve painter, he impressed me deeply since childhood with his brushstrokes loaded with oil paint \u2014 ten thousand shades and ten thousand colors, all placed together with perfect instinct.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">After the Academy came my return from Venice to Montecchio Maggiore<\/p><p class=\"p1\">After some time, I found a government job in an office at the Vicenza hospital. I felt like the customs officer Rousseau (a painter I greatly admire): painting became my pastime, and thus, free\u2014because it doesn\u2019t feed me, it can afford far fewer compromises (within the bounds of common sense).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0e3ed4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d0e3ed4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1212\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.claudiabettega.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CE-FLAG.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-532\" alt=\"CE FLAG\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0dcbca3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0dcbca3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"320\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.claudiabettega.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/claudia_art.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1102 lazyload\" alt=\"Claudia art\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 244px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 244\/320;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biografia Quando studiavo alle elementari, ci fu una lezione di storia medievale dove il nostro insegnante utilizz\u00f2 il dipinto \u201cAllegoria ed effetti del Buono e del Cattivo Governo\u201d di Ambrogio Lorenzetti, per descrivere i lavori in campagna ed in citt\u00e0 dell\u2019epoca. 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