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Pietrasanta
Mural Artist in Pietrasanta
In Pietrasanta, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in villas, flats, hotels, restaurants and on terraces. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 150 € per square metre. Free quote within 48 hours, two sketches included: you approve the design before Giulia paints.
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The price of a mural in Pietrasanta
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 150 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 250 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 350 €/sqm |
| Exterior facade: if needed, scaffolding is added to the quote. | |
Free quote within 48h
The quote starts from the surface and the technique, and spells out what comes on top: interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, scaffolding if needed, the timing.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Pietrasanta, here is what happens next.
A photo of the wall with the sketch
Send me a photo of the wall and I draw a sketch straight onto your photo. You tell me what you think. The first two sketches are free.
The quote
Once the sketch is approved, I send you the quote and we set the date together.
I paint the wall
I come and paint at your place in Pietrasanta, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Pietrasanta
Pietrasanta is called little Athens for the density of sculptors working there. The first marble-working school opened in 1842, thanks to the nearby quarries of the Apuan Alps. Fernando Botero and Igor Mitoraj both opened their studios there in 1983, and the international contemporary sculpture park shows more than eighty monumental works across the historic centre. In Pietrasanta, Giulia paints for houses, villas and venues.
What Giulia brings to Pietrasanta. Here people work hard material, marble, and take away instead of adding. Giulia does the opposite: she brings colour onto the wall, by hand, adding it to a place that already has its own identity. She paints an interest in what the studio artists build here, and defines each mural with the person she paints for. Giulia is a painter, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have written about her work, and her mural of over twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci can be seen in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
What Giulia brings to Pietrasanta
In 1993 Fernando Botero painted two facing frescoes in the church of the Misericordia, the Gate of Paradise and the Gate of Hell, after placing his Warrior on Piazza Matteotti in 1992. Around them work some fifty marble workshops and bronze foundries: it is for those that Henry Moore, Mitoraj, Miró and Niki de Saint Phalle came here.
Pietrasanta is therefore a town where a visiting artist painted two church walls, and where the craft is everywhere. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in the houses of the centre, the hotels, the restaurants and the galleries, using odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint on facades. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Giulia also paints live in Pietrasanta. For a seaside wedding, a summer evening or a birthday, she sets up her easel and the painting takes shape in front of your guests, signed and taken home the same evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. For a wedding, everything is on the live wedding painting in Versilia page.
Your questions, before commissioning
A photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and the idea you have in mind are enough to receive a quote.
How much does a mural cost in Pietrasanta?
The rate is per square metre: €150 for a line drawing or a simple motif, €250 for a fully painted subject, €350 for a trompe l’oeil or ceiling. The quote is free: see all prices.
How do I commission a mural in Pietrasanta?
Write to Giulia Dal Bon on WhatsApp or by email, even if the idea is still vague: she replies within 48 hours. Send her a photo of the wall to be painted, she draws a sketch straight onto your photo, you tell her what you think, and the first two sketches are free. Once the sketch is approved, she sends you the quote, from 150 € per sqm in Pietrasanta, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Pietrasanta, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
Does the price of a mural in Pietrasanta include the materials?
Giulia Dal Bon’s price per square metre includes the paint and materials, the first two sketches and the protective varnish as a finish. While she paints, you tell her what you think, and she adjusts. Added to the quote, when needed, are the scaffolding for a facade and travel costs, agreed together. The quote is free and arrives within 48 hours; a deposit of about 100 € for materials confirms the date, and the balance is settled at the end.
I’d like a mural or a painting on a wall of my home in Pietrasanta, who should I contact?
Giulia Dal Bon, a painter trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She paints murals by brush in homes, bedrooms, bathrooms, on terraces, pool walls and facades, and travels in Pietrasanta as she does across Europe. Send her a photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and your idea, however loose: she replies within 48 hours with a quote and a first proposal. The first two sketches are free. To have a wall painted in Pietrasanta, the guide Who to hire to have a wall painted explains the words of the craft and how to choose.
Can I see a design before commissioning the mural?
Always. You receive a sketch set on a photo of your own wall, to scale, together with the quote. The first two sketches are free: Giulia shows the work in progress, you give your opinion, and she adjusts. You confirm when you are ready.
Will a mural damage the wall?
The paint goes onto the plaster already in place. In most cases a dusting down is all that is needed before starting. If the surface has cracks or rising damp, Giulia points it out before quoting and proposes the preparation required. Indoors she uses an odourless acrylic: a child’s bedroom in use or a restaurant that stays open can both be painted. An acrylic mural can later be painted over like any wall paint, if you change your mind in ten years.
When is the best time to paint a mural in Pietrasanta?
All year round. Indoors the odourless acrylic lets the room stay in use while she works, in January as in July. Outdoors she needs a dry wall and a mild temperature. Giulia sets the date with you when she quotes, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves.
Can a view of Pietrasanta be painted on a wall?
Yes, and the subjects are right there in front of you. The Piazza del Duomo and its brick bell tower, the marble workshops open onto the street, and the white Apuan Alps behind the town. Giulia Dal Bon paints the scene with a brush, at the scale of the wall: 150 € per sqm as a line drawing, 250 € fully painted. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Pietrasanta?
In Pietrasanta, houses and villas lend themselves to botanical motifs, figurative subjects or a trompe l’oeil that works with stone and marble. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
A graffiti artist works with spray cans, and the line is fast and graphic. Giulia Dal Bon paints with a brush: the layers go on one after another, which allows gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil. A mural in Pietrasanta becomes a painting made directly on the wall, by hand. While she works, people take the time to watch and take photos.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist or a decorative painter, and the art itself is called mural painting or wall art. Giulia Dal Bon comes from painting: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and paints commissioned murals with a brush. To have one painted, send her a photo of your wall: free quote within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Pietrasanta?
Yes, with surface preparation and paints made for outdoor use. The nearby sea calls for an anti-salt primer and a UV-resistant finish.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Pietrasanta?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you generally need the owner’s or building association’s agreement, and a notice to the municipality if the building sits in a protected zone: many buildings in the historic centre are protected. Giulia explains the process before starting.
How long does it take to paint a mural?
It depends on the surface, the level of detail and how easy the wall is to reach. Giulia gives the timing with the quote, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves. The place keeps running while she works: the acrylic is odourless.
How long does a mural last?
An acrylic mural by Giulia Dal Bon lasts a lifetime indoors: the paint becomes part of the plaster and lives as long as the wall. Outdoors, quartz paint is made for facades, and an anti-salt or anti-pollution varnish extends it further. And if one day you want a change, it can be painted over like any wall paint.
Other spaces
The other places Giulia paints, her portfolio and the towns nearby.
Homes and villas
A bedroom, a hallway, a staircase: the walls you look at every day.
A mural for your home
Restaurants, hotels and boutiques
A painted wall gives the room its character, and the place stays open while she works.
A mural for your restaurant
Other cities
Giulia also works in these other European cities.
Tuscany · Florence · Venice · Forte dei Marmi · Amalfi
All the cities
Giulia also travels to Livorno, Massa, Montalcino, Montepulciano, Pienza, Pistoia, Prato and San Gimignano.
The 20-metre-plus wall for Gaber and Jannacci, in Milan, in the press
Giulia Dal Bon, trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
Where Giulia works in Pietrasanta
In Pietrasanta, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the bedroom and the kitchen. She paints the bathroom, the entrance and the hallway just as readily. A ceiling asks for more work, and she paints it gladly. Outside, she switches to quartz paint on the exterior facade. She also paints on a mobile panel, to carry the painting elsewhere.
She paints in venues as different as apartment and boutique, and in hotel.
Whether your wall is in the historic centre or in Marina di Pietrasanta, a photo of it and its dimensions are enough to start: Giulia draws the sketch straight onto the photo.
The subject comes from you. Giulia draws a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, a painted sky on a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil. She paints figures and animals, letters signs and lettering by hand, and reproduces a work you love.
Possible subjects in Pietrasanta: the white Apuan Alps behind the town, the Piazza del Duomo and its brick bell tower, the marble workshops open onto the street. A trompe-l’oeil window, a botanical motif and a painted sky work just as well.
The craft goes by several names, and each of them is right about something. Mural and wall mural speak of the wall, wall decoration and mural decoration speak of the room, decorative painting speaks of the gesture, trompe-l’oeil speaks of the effect. A hand-painted wall, a drawing on a wall, a painting made directly on the wall: still the same thing. In Pietrasanta, it is called a mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist, a decorative painter.
In Pietrasanta the first marble-working school opened in 1842; Botero and Mitoraj opened their studios there in 1983.
Giulia also travels throughout Tuscany.
Where the mural can find its place
- For a period apartment, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the entrance and the ceiling. From €150 per m², free quote within 48h.
- In a hotel or a boutique, she paints the reception wall, the storefront and the lounge. Free quote within 48h.
- Giulia also travels throughout Tuscany.