Edward Giobbi
Education
Education
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In his article, "Still Going Strong", New York Times, September 9, 2001, D. Dominick Lombardi wrote:

"After returning from the service in 1946, Giobbi worked in a foundry, earning enough money to begin his art education at Vesper George School of Art in Boston."

A visiting artist there, Henry Hensche, suggested that Giobbi spend the summer at Hensche's private art school in Provincetown, Mass.

"He taught the Impressionist style, which is when I learned color logic, whereby all colors fit as they do in nature," Giobbi said. "This enabled me to build a color vocabulary that I continue to use today."

After he finished school in Boston, Giobbi moved on to the Art Students League in Manhattan. "The League was fabulous in 1949," he said. "It was full of veterans who were no\-nonsense. They had families, they experienced war, and there was no time for fussing around."

"Shortly afterwards, my mother suggested I visit Italy. I stayed for three years, learned to speak better Italian and studied fresco painting at the Academia di Belle Arte in Florence. I learned the old master techniques using dried pigments with rabbit skin glue. That is when I fell in love with the early fresco artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Michelangelo. Those are the people that still nourish me through their art."


Why did Giobbi visit Italy, and what did he learn there?