Giancarlo Landi was born in Florence in 1937, and nurtures a passion for drawing from an early age when, at the end of World War II, then drawing the scenario that presented itself to the eyes and that is: planes, tanks and destroyed homes.

He began to paint only fifteen years old and his first job was an oil portrait he did, from memory, to his school to which nurtured a youthful love never declared all’interessata.

Shy and reserved, he never wanted to participate in any prize for painting, even the most modest, he does know a painter in the district where you live or in the city where he works.

Yet, seeing his work, it was necessary that at some point his solitude was broken and could look out to the balcony to get the public to see and know and, importantly, go into collections.

In the early ’50s, while attending high school, he felt the need to join the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, then headed by the painter Emanuele Cavalli, Landi attended assiduously in the afternoon session.

Later followed the teachings of Nerina Simi in her studio in Via Tripoli International Drawing in Florence, where many students passed through Annigoni.

In fact, looking at the work of Landi, we can not realize that they are the result of study and a well-established profession as well as a constant application.

Landi does not belong to current and does not get flatter to chase mode: is a serious person who paints as you know what you feel like doing.