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Tuscany
Mural Artist in Tuscany
In Tuscany, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in houses, villas, hotels, restaurants and shops. 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 Tuscany
| 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
Surface and technique set the price; interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, any scaffolding and the timing are then written into the quote.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural shaped for Tuscany, 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 shaped for Tuscany, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals shaped for Tuscany
Between February 1338 and May 1339 Ambrogio Lorenzetti frescoed the Sala dei Nove of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico with the Allegory of Good and Bad Government: three painted walls so that the governors meeting in that room would have the consequences of their choices before their eyes every day. In Tuscany, mural painting was born to be looked at daily, in the places where people live and decide.
What Giulia brings. 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.
Giulia also paints live at weddings in the area: the canvas advances during the cocktail hour and stays with the couple at the end. See live wedding painting.
In Tuscany, Giulia also paints live in front of an audience: a wedding, a concert or a company evening. The canvas starts blank and ends signed, ready to hang. From 950 € for a wedding, from 900 € for a company evening, from 400 € for a performance at a concert. See live painting →
Tuscany between fresco and landscape
Here mural painting has a seven-century history, and the landscape comes into the house through the windows.
Houses and villas
Living rooms, bedrooms, entrances, verandas and ceilings in old-town houses and villas. Example: a 10 m² living room wall fully painted, around €2,500.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Hotels, restaurants, bars and shops, often in older buildings with high ceilings. Example: a 15 m² wall fully painted, around €3,750.
Facades and exterior walls
The sun is strong and summers are hot: exteriors are painted in quartz paint, with light-stable pigments. From €150 per m², plus scaffolding if needed.
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 Tuscany?
Giulia Dal Bon’s price is per square metre: 150 € for a line drawing or a simple motif, 250 € for a fully painted subject, 350 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. A small mural in a bedroom costs less than a facade that needs preparation and scaffolding. The quote is free: see all prices.
How do I get a mural painted in my home shaped for Tuscany?
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 shaped for Tuscany, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place shaped for Tuscany, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
Can a Tuscan landscape be painted on a wall?
Yes. Brunelleschi’s dome and the roofs of Florence, the Ponte Vecchio, the cypress hills of the Val d’Orcia, the towers of San Gimignano, the Chianti vineyards, the Piazza del Campo in Siena. Tuscany invented this kind of view: in 1338 and 1339 Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted a whole countryside for the Room of the Nine in Siena, fields, roads and farmers, across one entire wall. Giulia Dal Bon paints with a brush, on site. The price follows the technique: 150 € per sqm as a line drawing, 250 € for a fully painted view.
What does the price of a mural shaped for Tuscany include?
With Giulia Dal Bon, the 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.
What kind of mural works well in Tuscany?
In farmhouses, agriturismi and villas, a landscape, a botanical motif or a perspective trompe-l’oeil sit well on pale render and stone. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
The paint goes onto the plaster already in place. Dusting it down is usually enough. If the surface has cracks or rising damp, Giulia flags it before quoting.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Always. You get a sketch mounted on the photo of your wall, to scale, with the quote. You confirm whenever you are ready, and she adjusts the design with you.
What subject works well for a mural in Tuscany?
The subjects that work here: floral and botanical work for bedrooms and living rooms, landscapes for living spaces and terraces, trompe l’oeil for facades and ceilings. Everything is drawn to measure: Giulia offers two free sketches from your idea, and you refine it together until the subject is yours. If you are still choosing the subject of your mural in Tuscany, the guide What subject to choose for a mural reviews the options room by room.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
Spray can and brush give two different results. The brush works in layers, which makes gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil possible: that is why a mural can be looked at like a painting. In Tuscany, Giulia Dal Bon paints by hand, in odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint outdoors. A painting made by hand shows, and it stands out all the more today.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A muralist, or a decorative painter; the word fresco painter exists too, for the old technique. In Tuscany, that is the work of Giulia Dal Bon: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and paints commissioned murals with a brush. People also search for it as mural painting, wall mural or hand-painted wall. Send her a photo of your wall: free quote within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Tuscany?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In Tuscany many areas and old town centres are protected: a facade visible from the street generally needs the owner’s agreement and a notice to the municipality. Giulia paints outdoors all year round, on a dry wall and in mild weather: she checks the forecast with you and sets the date.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Tuscany?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you usually need the owner’s or the building association’s approval, and a notice to the town hall if the building is in a protected area. 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
At home, Giulia paints the living room, a bedroom, the entrance or the staircase. Made to measure, from 150 € per sqm.
Home and villa murals
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
In a hotel or a boutique, she paints reception, the bedrooms and the shop window. From 150 to 350 € per sqm depending on the technique.
Hotel and boutique murals
Ideas for spaces
The mural can be floral, vegetal, maritime, narrative, or more restrained. What matters most is the relationship between painting, surface, and the way the place is lived.
Homes and villas
Village houses, sea-facing apartments, entryways, staircases, and rooms where color can make the wall feel warmer and more alive.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Restaurants, small hotels, boutiques, and places that want atmosphere while keeping the honesty of the material and the light.
A mural made for this place
Other places naturally included in Tuscany
Within this Tuscan axis, Siena and Lucca also belong, with the same continuity of homes, small hotels, entryways, facades and passage spaces where painting meets stone and render.
Siena
Siena belongs here when the mural involves historic residences, courtyards, hotels and venues in the centre.
Lucca
Lucca belongs to the same group for houses within the walls, hotels, bedrooms and tree-lined courtyards.
One continuous coast
The method stays the same across this part of Tuscany: the mural begins from the real surface, the way the wall is seen, the rhythm of the place, and the way people move through it.
Nearby towns
A few places directly connected to this territory.
Arezzo · Siena · Florence · Pietrasanta · Forte dei Marmi · Volterra
The mural of over 20 metres 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 Tuscany
In Tuscany, in a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. The same work applies to the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. A ceiling is painted like a wall, working overhead. Outside, she switches to quartz paint on the exterior facade and the garden wall. She also paints on a mobile panel, when the wall belongs to someone else.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Tuscany, the room stays open while she paints: the acrylic is odourless. In a boutique and a shop, the painted window is seen from the street, and the shutter stays painted after closing. In a hotel and a B&B, the painted wall gives each room its own subject. For a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the cabin, changing-room and reception walls. In a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the reception wall and the corridor. In an office and a showroom, she paints the wall the teams walk past every day. A cellar is painted as well, vault included.
A wall can carry a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, lettering, a painted sign. A ceiling takes a sky. A perspective trompe-l’oeil opens a window or a corridor on a solid wall. Giulia also paints figures and animals, and reproduces a work on request.
People ask for different things and mean the same one: a mural, a wall mural, an artistic painting on a wall. Others say wall decoration, decorative painting, mural decoration. Others again a trompe-l’oeil, a hand-painted wall, a drawing on a wall, or a painting made directly on the wall. It is one craft, that of a mural artist, a muralist, a decorative painter, and Giulia does it with a brush in Tuscany.
Tuscany runs from Florence to the Maremma, with art cities, hills and coastlines where fresco has a seven-century history: tall packed houses, trompe-l’oeil painted facades, seafront shops.
Giulia also travels to Florence, to Pietrasanta, to Forte dei Marmi and to Volterra.
She also works in Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Cortona, Montepulciano, Montalcino, Pienza, San Gimignano, Certaldo, Greve in Chianti, Fiesole, Prato, Pistoia, Viareggio, Camaiore, Massa, Carrara, Livorno, Bolgheri, Castiglione della Pescaia and Capalbio.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a house, a flat or a villa, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the kitchen, the entrance, the staircase, the courtyard and the exterior wall. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a restaurant, a bar, an ice cream shop, a shop or a hotel, Giulia paints the dining room wall, the shop window, the shutter and the facade. Free quote within 48h.
- The mural can be floral, vegetal, maritime, narrative, or more restrained