G D (b.1982) is an Italian figurative painter living and working in Rome, Italy.
After graduating in 2006 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Dante distinguished himself as an artist of contemporary revival of classical painting.
His work emphasizes, through the body and myth, symbols immutable over time, the emotions of human soul, such as atemporal values, therefore contemporary in every time. The painting of Giorgio Dante has its roots in traditional methods of Old Masters. Italian art of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raffaello, inspired him to paint since his childhood and influenced his choice to pursue an academic figurative technique, focused on Neoclassicism and 19th century European painting (William Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Leighton, John William Waterhouse, Paul Delaroche, Jean-Jacques Henner, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, etc).
He exhibited in Europe and Usa.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Group Exhibition “Supervisione” at Costantine Palace, Palermo, Italy.
2022 – Solo Exhibition “Les Ténèbres et la Lumière” at Castries Castle, Montpellier, France.
2021/2022 – Solo Exhibition “Les Ténèbres et la Lumière” at Palace of the Popes, Grande Audience Hall, Avignon, France.
2019 – Group Exhibition “Charitas” at Art and Craft Museum (ex MAM), Cosenza, Italy.
2019 – Exhibition for Consulate General of Italy in Marseille, Villa de Gaby Deslys, France.
2018 – Art Expo New York, NY, United States.
2017 – Donation of “Saint Francis of Paola and the Miracle of the Resurrected Fish” painting to Province of Cosenza, Italy and Musealization of the painting in MAM (Museo delle Arti e dei Mestieri della Provincia di Cosenza).
2017 – ForReal Art Fair, MEAM Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2016 – Group Exhibition “The Myth of Painting”, St Costanzo Church, Ronciglione, VT, Italy.
2016 – UNESCO Group Exhibition, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights Conference, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
2016 – UNESCO Group Exhibition, International Association of Bioethics Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
2016 – Fine Art Academy of Rome Conference, “The Delights of the Untimely”, Rome, RM, Italy.
2016 – Group Exhibition “The Annunciation’s New Year”, Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence, FI, Italy.
2016 – Group Exhibition “San Francesco di Paola, Sixth Centenary of the Birth”, Palazzo della Provincia di Cosenza, Cosenza, CS, Italy.
2016 – UNESCO Group Exhibition, Conference on Medicine and Religion, JWMarriott Galleria, Houston, Texas, USA.
2015 – Finalist in UNESCO Bioethics Art Competition.
2014 – Group Exhibition “Le donne, i cavalier, l’arme, gli amori”, Palazzo Dossetti, UNIMORE (Modena and Reggio Emilia University), Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy.
2014 – Solo Exhibition “Giorgio Dante and the Triumph of Classicism”, Ottagono Gallery, Bibbiano, Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy.
2013 – Musealization opera “Atlante” in MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
2013 – Solo Exhibition “The Scandal of Beauty”, Officine of Memory and Image, Fiuggi, Frosinone, FR, Italy.
2013 – Group Exhibition, “The Heresy of Painting”, Orsini Palace in Bomarzo, Viterbo, VT, Italy.
2013 – Group Exhibition, “Healing”, Constantine and Naples Palace, Palermo, PA, Italy.
2013 – Solo Exhibition “Giorgio Dante and the Invisible Figures”, Vittoria Gallery, Rome, RM, Italy.
2012 – Group Exhibition “The Divine in the Contemporary Art”, Brettii and Enotri Museum, Cosenza, CS, Italy.
2012 – Group Exhibition, “Saint Rosalia”, Constantine and Naples Palace, Palermo, PA, Italy.
2011/2012 – Group Exhibition “In the Sign of Rome”, Rome, RM, Italy.
2011 – Group Exhibition “Search of the Absolute”, Saint Agnes Church, Denno, TN, Italy.
2010 – Group Exhibition “In the Circle of Holy”, Incontro d’Arte Gallery, Rome, RM, Italy.
2010 – Cornelia Award 2010, Art section, “Cuori sotto le stelle”, 10th edition, Saint Roman, Pisa, PI, Italy.
2008 – Group Exhibition “Flesh and Passion. The Fervor of Saint Sebastian”, CFM Gallery, New York, NY, United States.
2008 – Group Exhibition, “Arnold Bocklin. In the Circle of Bocklin”, Vittoria Gallery, Rome, RM, Italy.