Biography

Luisanna Garau, born in 1968, Master of Applied Arts since 1990, iconographer, artist, wife and mother, since 1987 has developed a specific research interest in the sacred arts.

Gaining experience in several studios of contemporary sacred art, she specialised in Byzantine iconography with the masters Giovanni Mezzalira, Father Andrej Davidov and Aleksandr Stal'nov of the Theological Academy of St. Petersburg.

For over 30 years, she has developed her studies and profession as a service to research - in collaboration with fellow iconographers of different nationalities, liturgists and symbolic theology scholars - for a living and effective Christian art, according to the dictates of the Second Vatican Council (of the Roman Catholic Church) and the ancient tradition of the undivided Church, in the conviction that, as with Sacred Scripture, the return to sources can contribute to the needs of the contemporary Church.

Her experience has produced about 500 individual works, located in Italy and abroad, projects and realisations of iconographic programmes in Catholic churches, as well as sacred furnishings, vestments and illustrations.

She steadily collaborates with the San Michele studio of master Ivan Polverari in Rome, Professor of Drawing, Painting and Design at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy of Sant'Anselmo in Rome in the academic year 2023-24.

This biography has been translated by Francesco Amatulli.

To see Luisanna's works and for further information, please refer to:

Website: www.laboratorionazareth.org (in English via Google Translate)
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