The descriptive accuracy of the leaves and rocks in the foreground competes with the analogical precision of Dürer and Mantegna. The artist’s interest in masters of the past includes also the spiritual inspiration of the Romantics, from whom he seems to have borrowed the theme of a steep path that, moving through nature, leads to religious solace and contemplation of the absolute.
The Path to the Hermitage
Jacopo Ginanneschi
Castel del Piano, 1987
Jacopo Ginanneschi studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence under Adriano Bimbi and exhibited for the first time in 2010 in the project “Made in Mugello: Landscapes.” The following year he assisted Nicola de Maria at the Museo Pecci in Prato and graduated from the academy. In 2012 he took part in celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the Scolopian Father Ernesto Balducci in the show “I am Only a Man,” held in Palazzo Medici Riccardi. That same year he was named artist-in-residence at Daugavpils in Lithuania and left two works in the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Involved by his teachers at the Accademia in various initiatives, in 2017 he exhibited at Xavier Bueno’s house in Florence and the Fondazione Primo Conti in Fiesole. Subsequently he participated in painting and teaching projects at the academies of Hangzhou and Chongqing in China, and was invited to be part of an artist-in-residence project, “Eye of the World, Discovery of Chongqing,” at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, and the collective “East Meets West,” held at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2019.
That same year he collaborated with the artist Erik Bulalov for the show “The Missing Planet” at the Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato and exhibited in the collective “For Leonardo: Art is Free” at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.
Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Istituto Comprensivo Marconi, a public school in Santa Fiora, and is a professor of painting at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.
