Live painting in Lombardy: wedding, private party, private view, concert

A wedding in Lombardy

Lombardy has eight wedding destinations, each with its own page: Milan and the Brianza, Lake Como, Bergamo, Varese and its lake, Lake Garda, Franciacorta, the Oltrepò Pavese and Mantua. Giulia Dal Bon sets up her easel at the edge of the party and paints during the cocktail hour or the dinner, in a villa in the Brianza, a palace in Mantua, an estate in Franciacorta or a lakeside hotel: guests walk by, look, come back, and the canvas moves forward before their eyes. In the evening, you leave with the painting, made and finished on the spot.

Lombardy through the year

In Lombardy, the year reads from Milan to Brescia. In April, Milano Art Week and Design Week open the season in Milan. In May, Piano City Milano fills the city with concerts, and the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, born in 1929, brings classic cars together in Cernobbio, on Lake Como. In June, the Mille Miglia, which started from Brescia in 1927, gathers cars built between 1927 and 1957 in the streets and squares of the city.

In September, Mantua hosts the Festivaletteratura, since 1997, and Monza the Italian Grand Prix, on a racetrack opened in 1922. In 2023, Bergamo and Brescia shared the title of Italian Capital of Culture. Around these dates, villas, hotels and estates receive their guests in the evening, and a live painting gives these evenings a moment the guests take the time to watch, then a canvas that stays with the host or the brand. Giulia speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish: guests who come from several countries talk to her in their own language.

A private party in Lombardy

For a birthday, a dinner or a family celebration, Giulia Dal Bon paints live in the place you have chosen: a villa in the Brianza, a palazzo in Pavia or Cremona, a cascina on the plain, a garden along a naviglio, a terrace on a lake. She paints what makes your evening: the courtyard, the laid table, the garden, or the guests themselves, in watercolour, each one leaving with their portrait. At the end of the party, the painting is finished and signed, and it stays with you. The page on live painting for a private party presents every format.

A private view, a gallery in Lombardy

Lombardy keeps great places of painting: Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi, painted between 1465 and 1474 in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, the monastery of Santa Giulia in Brescia, the Certosa di Pavia, founded in 1396. For a private view, Giulia Dal Bon, trained at Brera, sets her easel in a corner of the room, away from the walls, and paints while visitors discover the exhibition. The subject answers the works on show, the place or the music of the evening, and the gallery chooses it with her. For the opening of a shop or a restaurant, the page on live painting for an opening or a private view explains how it goes.

A brand or company evening in Lombardy

For a collection launch, a partners’ dinner or a trade-fair evening, Giulia paints in front of your guests a canvas that tells the story of the brand or the team: the product, the material, the logo slipped into the composition, the colours of the house. The canvas then stays with the company, with an invoice in its name. Each major city of the region has its page: the one on corporate live painting in Milan, the one on corporate live painting in Bergamo and Brescia and the one on corporate live painting on Lake Como.

The towns of Lombardy

Giulia travels everywhere in Lombardy, from the cities to the villages: to Cernusco sul Naviglio, Mediglia, Lodi, Pavia, Vigevano, Cremona, Crema, Lecco and Sondrio. Two live painting pages tell the region in more detail: those on Milan and on Lake Como.

In practice, in Lombardy

Giulia was born in Segrate and lived a large part of her life in Milan: she knows the courtyards, the halls and the towns where she paints. The length is decided with you, from about twenty minutes to a whole evening. She paints in odourless acrylic, on an easel that finds its place in a corner of a room, a garden or a stage, with a little light if the evening is at night. She brings the canvas, the colours and the easel. For each venue, travel and logistics are agreed together in the quote.

Over several dates. If the format suits you, Giulia comes back: a series of evenings, a whole season or a residency of a few days. The quote is then made for the whole, and you set the dates together.