Elisabetta Zanutto

PAINTER

Elisabetta Zanutto was born in Venice in 1976. In 1996, she enrolled at the Aldo Galli Academy in Como, where she specialized in artistic techniques and the restoration of paintings on canvas and wood. She spent two years in the restoration workshops working on frescoes and stuccos. Additionally, she studied restoration chemistry for four years, gaining experience in the analysis and interpretation of samples. She also took courses in engraving techniques, ceramics, kiln firing, photography, and darkroom development. In 2001, she graduated in painting and pictorial restoration from the Academy of Como with a thesis titled "Earth Visions and Lacerations," delving into the work of the ceramist Leoncillo Leonardi. She presented her own painting, a temporal triptych (past—present—future), painted on fragments of canvas (recovered from the walls during the restoration of her studio) embedded in resin panels. This marked her first venture into abstract art. In 2002, she established her own restoration company, where she worked for two years on paintings from various epochs, employing new methodologies combined with the expertise passed down from her father, himself a descendant of a family of restorers and painters. Under the guidance of Alberto Finozzi, she attended courses on compensating for the pictorial support, using a specific low-pressure table, adhesives, and consolidants suitable for preserving the artwork in relation to its era and state of conservation. She also participated in a course on new methods of cleaning paintings with Paolo Cremonesi, as well as sampling and chemical analyses with Stefano Volpin. During this period, she created abstract works, incorporating collage elements with paper and canvas.