Landscape Hunters

Olivia Nesci

Olivia Nesci was Professor of Physical Geography and Geomorphology at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. The scientific activity, documented by numerous national and international publications and presentations at the conference, was held in the fields of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology. The best-known works to the international scientific community concern the genesis and the evolution of the physical landscape of the central-northern Italy and research in Cultural Geomorphology. In 2006 she began a collaboration with the artist Rosetta Borchia on the discovery of the landscapes that form the backdrop to the great works of the Renaissance. She is co-author of six books on Italian physical landscape.

Rosetta Borchia

Rosetta Borchia holds a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino and is a painter and a photographer of the landscapes of Montefeltro. She is also a keen naturalist and a hunter of ancient roses and rare wildflowers, as well as a garden designer. In 2006, after taking some pictures of the Metauro Valley, she discovered that she had captured the same hill that Piero della Francesca had painted right below Federico da Montefeltro’s chin in the Diptych of the Dukes of Urbino. Since then, she has embarked on a new and exciting adventure in search of other backgrounds in Renaissance paintings. She has published four books about this subject.

Art Director

Carla Luminati

Carla Luminati is the artist and printer of engraving arts of her Artistic Printing Studio Ca' Virginio and she is a published of Prunea's series entitled "Preziosi Frammenti di Vita". She was born in Urbino in 1984, and her passion for graphic art has deep roots in her family: her parents have been collaborating for several decades with the GR Gallery and with the publishing companies such as Bidiellepi and BdA, curating and, at the same time, creating art lovers' folders of various artists. 

In 2003 she gratuatd from the school of Urbino's Book, in 2006 she gratuated in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and in 2004 she gratuated in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" 

Since her childhood, Carla has cultivated the passion for drawing and graphics, demonstrating her excellent manual skills and achieving several awards. After graduating, Carla studied technical and cultural knowledge of engraving and print art and thanks to these experiences comes from the idea to open the Artistic Printing Studio Ca' Virginio. 

As printer, Carla's talent is to listen to the needs of each artists, enstablishing with each of them a synergy relationship that it is fundamental to understand the real thought and the needs of the artist.

As artist, Carla is the self printer of her engravings, she is able to transform  her thought in "speaking sights".

She offer her capabilities even to private or institutional customers, who are looking for something original like: art prints for ceremonies (weddings, baptisms, confirmation), and art cartels for events.

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