Mateo Ferrante
“I paint after the masters, in their own manner, until the room goes quiet.”
After Vermeer, The Art of Painting
Mateo Ferrante
A study of Vermeer’s painter at his easel, made over eleven months in the same north light. The work he says taught him the most.
Five works, two available.
After Friedrich, The Wanderer
2024 · Oil on canvas · 95 × 75 cm
After Chardin, The Young Student
2025 · Oil on panel · 80 × 65 cm
After Fragonard, The Swing
2023 · Oil on canvas · 81 × 64 cm
After Millet, The Gleaners
2023 · Oil on canvas · 84 × 112 cm
STN · 0019
Lapis
M. Ferrante
The living seal. Every work leaves with Mateo’s thumb pressed in this colour, on the certificate that stays with it.Ground pigment, linen, north light.
Mateo trained as a restorer before he called himself a painter, and learned to read other people’s brushwork long before he trusted his own. His works are studies after the masters, painted in their materials and at their pace, each one close to a year in the making.
He works in oil, in a fourth-floor room above the Arno. He signs nothing. The thumbprint is enough.
- TrainedAccademia di Belle Arti, Florence
- Works inOil and ground pigment, on linen, canvas and panel
- In the houseInvited March 2024
- ShipsFramed, with certificate, from Florence
- Seal colourLapis