Vincenzo Volpi (1954) - Gru Coronata
Vincenzo Volpi was born near Pontassieve, in the province of Florence in 1954. Very young he had to follow his family who moved to Florence, where he is still living now.
He travelled through Europe, lived long time in Paris and East Germany, where he had the possibility to improve his talent in the graphic and miniature arts. In the seventies, he was back in Florence where he worked actively at the Ciompi theatre and therefore had the opportunity to meet the other engravers. Together they founded the art print studio -laboratory named “Ippogrifo”, which has become a real centre for the technical research of the old art of engraving. After long time of artistic activity in the florentine area, living in the historical district named San Frediano, now the Studio Calcografico Ippogrifo has its seat in a great cottage, among the mountains of Monte Giovi; where also lived Giotto, Beato Angelico and Don Milani, the famous priest of Barbiana