Francis Bacon
1909 – 1992, artist
Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the internationally famous Irish-born British painter who was among the most influential artists...
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827, composer
Among the uses of paper Fabriano could not miss an art of primary importance: music. In a recently published...
Giambattista Bodoni
1740 – 1813, typographer
Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) is famous for being the “Prince of Typographers”, but he was also an engrave, printer and publisher...
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475 – 1564, artist
In spite of the political strife that afflicted this era, during the Renaissance paper production in Fabriano continued to grow in quality...
Antonio Canova
1757 – 1822, sculptor
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), another famous client of Cartiere Fabriano, is famous throughout the world for his neoclassical...
Gabriele D’Annunzio
1863 – 1938, poet
Olga Brunner Levi, a singer and pianist from Trieste, met the ‘poet-prophet’ in June 1916, when a little over thirty, at Palazzo Giustiniani...
Federico Fellini
1920 – 1993, film director
«Why do I draw the characters in my films? …It is a way of first looking the film in the face, to see what type it is; an effort to fix on something...
Giuseppe Garibaldi
1807 – 1882, patriot
The history books recall and celebrate the general and patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) for his contribution to the Unity of Italy...
Bruno Munari
1907 – 1998, designer
Bruno Munari (1907-1998), artist, illustrator and designer, a true master whose appeal stretches well beyond the art world...
Georgia O’Keeffe
1887 – 1986, artist
Many American artists and photographers of the twentieth century worked with Fabriano paper. Among them were John Marin...
Francesco Rosaspina
1762 – 1841, engraver
The engraver Francesco Rosaspina appreciated Fabriano paper. He wrote it in a letter dated 7 July 1820, in which he describes...
Raffaello Sanzio
1483 – 1520, artist
Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) used Fabriano paper. This is confirmed by the recurrence of watermarks recognized as from the paper mills...