Rome, Italy
Pietro Capone
Oil, Mixed Media
Biography
Pietro Capone (b. 1995, Rome) is an Italian painter whose work bridges the classical and the contemporary through technique, symbolism, and introspection. After graduating from art school, he pursued studies in Archaeology and Art History at La Sapienza University of Rome before devoting several years to music. His path eventually led him back to visual art, where he discovered a deep love for painting and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating summa cum laude. Capone is passionate about historical methodologies and revives the traditional techniques of the old masters through what he defines as “experimental archaeology”—a practice of artistic reconstruction that challenges the erasures of 20th-century avant-garde movements. From 2016 to 2018, he trained in the atelier of Giorgio Dante and in 2017 participated in the Symposium of Contemporary Figurative Art led by Dante and Roberto Ferri. That same year, his work was shown in Antico Presente – L’Accademia Disegna at the Museo Gregoriano Profano, and in the group exhibition mutAzioni at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In December, he donated three still life drawings to the Vatican, all created in the exhibition halls of the Vatican Museums. Capone continued to exhibit across Rome, including Night, a collective exhibition at Temple University’s Gallery of Art (2018), and L’Eco – Roberto Ferri and his students at Crazy March Gallery (2020). From 2019 to 2022, he was a collaborator and assistant to Ferri, supporting five major workshops. In December 2023, Pietro Capone held his first solo exhibition at the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, and in 2024, debuted his second solo exhibition Un Incantesimo Solare at the historic Vittoriale degli Italiani, home of Gabriele D’Annunzio. Through drawing, painting, and poetry, Capone explores the fragile beauty of memory, identity, and the sacred—inviting viewers into a world where past and present meet in reverent, lyrical tension.
Awards
NOMA Gallery Best of Show Portrait 2025
Works (24)
Intermittent Spaces
Pietro Capone
Spirit's Prison
Pietro Capone
Hidden Promises
Pietro Capone
Promesse Celate
Pietro Capone
Luogo dell'assenza
Pietro Capone
Charcoal and iron gall ink on blue paper · 42 × 29.7 cm
Allegoria della notte
Pietro Capone
Charcoal, white lead, and iron gall ink on blue paper · 29.7 × 42 cm
Distanza
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 80 × 60 cm
Ricordo
Pietro Capone
Oil on linen · 110 × 75 cm
Fruscii di parole
Pietro Capone
Charcoal and iron gall ink on blue paper · 29.7 × 42 cm
Tra le ombre
Pietro Capone
Charcoal, white lead, and iron gall ink on blue paper · 29.7 × 42 cm
Crepuscolo
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 60 × 40 cm
Custode della fragilità
Pietro Capone
Charcoal and iron gall ink on blue paper · 29.7 × 42 cm
Confini del pianto
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 70 × 50 cm
La morte di Saffo
Pietro Capone
Charcoal and iron gall ink on blue paper · 29.7 × 21 cm
Il più grande male fra gli uomini è l'ignoranza riguardo a Dio
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 105 × 70 cm
Richiamo
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 40 × 30 cm
Carezze lontane
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink, charcoal, and white lead on blue paper
Danza di ruggine
Pietro Capone
Charcoal and iron gall ink on blue paper · 100 × 70 cm
Rimpianto II
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 70 × 50 cm
La voce del fuoco
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 120 × 230 cm
Danza di ruggine
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 100 × 70 cm
Vuoto
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 120 × 90 cm
Custode della fragilità
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 50 × 70 cm
La musa
Pietro Capone
Iron gall ink and oil on linen · 70 × 50 cm
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