Oil and acrylic on panel 100x70 cm - signed bottom right - further authentication written and signed by the artist on the canvas back - Italian origin - shipping via UPS - SDA - TNT. Biography: Vincenzo Martini was born in Foligno on 23rd August 1955 and lives in Spello since 1982. Graduated in biological sciences, after high school, he accidentally tries his hand with painting in 1985, immediately achieving recognition and consensus so much so that little by little what looked like a fun, accidentally becomes a vital need. To really sketch an interpretation of the painting by V. Martini, you should consider the cultural areas he participates in, certainly they are those of Umbria and in particular of Spello. Just in Spello exists a school of painting, and particularly naive, consisting of very different individuals whose contact allowed him to develop a love for painting, hitherto concealed, which he probably wore in the backpack since childhood, and that only after arriving in this beautiful town has exploded. His work as a Sunday painter then underwent a sudden turn, especially when he realized that he was totally absorbed by it and it was incompatible with any other interest or passion. And in its deep search for human roots, Spello has helped him a lot. And that's basically his advantage: living in a city with an image of civilization that has certainly preserved almost intact the connotations of the old Franciscan village with buildings that resist over time, as if they were constantly restored, such is their beauty: so that he leads us in the narrow streets of Spello, Gubbio, Assisi, Perugia, Gualdo Tadino, with unmistakable architectural connotations of that medieval Umbria, where the houses are perched on each other, with old churches, fountains, arches, squares, towers, while all around is countryside with a view that ends and sweeps over the fields, the crops, and those only mountains. It is a most comprehensive and closer Umbria than the one described by others naive. Considering that he did not study design, or architecture, or scenography, nor his works are by long and painful meditations, but only the instinctive act of nice dream. V. Martini's at the edge of naif painting, for a singular candour: for the plastic balance and for contemplation of things; what we are losing today, can be found in these paintings. Making naive does not express a mood; in fact, everything takes place in a daily playful atmosphere, and in various scenes of the same town there is the intention to convey to the viewer the slow going of things, the changing of the seasons, all dominated by a blatant nostalgia, by a reconstruction of a bridge between the present and the past, where the only thing to be banned is the today society with its threatening industrial constructions, which unfortunately also in the medieval Umbrian towns begin to overlap the noble stone, with its cars and electronic equipment, the noise, the rush; then the first reflection is to wonder why these paintings take us back in time, in an atmosphere where peace is the essential feature. The society seems frivolous and backward, and it does not take into account of ideals and endless dreams of happiness, love, virtue, which the human being nourishes in his soul and who cannot and will not give up.