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Filippo Giusti (March 2, 1990) is an Italian painter who has been residing in San Miguel de Allende since 2018. He was born in Livorno, a coastal city in Tuscany, where he began his artistic career as an actor and photographer. It was only after moving to Mexico that he discovered his passion for painting and fully dedicated himself to the visual arts. Despite not having studied drawing or painting in Italy, Filippo turned to the internet and various classical texts to explore different artistic techniques, thus forging a completely personalized path based on his own interests and aesthetic preferences. His early works leaned towards the surrealist movement before transitioning to commissioned portraits. It was during this period that Giusti realized his desire to portray people in his paintings in a deeper way, going beyond their mere external appearance. After several months of experimentation and study, he began to develop his own style, which he called "Essentialism." I...