Saro Mirabella Art

Saro Mirabella was born in 1914 in Catania, Italy. He has shown an exceptional disposition for drawing and took the firm decision to follow his vocation for art. In the studio of the Catanese painter Spina, he learned the first rudiments of painting and in 1934, he made educational visits to the museums of Rome and Florence. In 1936, he left his city and settled in Rome, also following the choice of many workers, of the arm and of the mind, who in that period left the island increasingly poor and devoid of initiatives. In Rome, he was generously welcomed in the studio in Piazza Melozzo da Forlì by the Sicilian painter Domenico Quattrociocchi. He worked as a retoucher in a photo studio; meanwhile, he also attended the Academy of S. Luca and the free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he met famous artists who appreciated his qualities. During the war, he participated in the Resistance as a partisan. After the liberation he was hired as Guttuso's assistant to teach the Drawn Figure.