Umberto Mariani (Milan, 16th November 1936) is an Italian artist and painter.
The war experience left significant marks in the soul of the very young Mariani. He completed regular art studies, first at the Liceo Artistico and then in the same building from 1954 to 1958 at Brera Academy of Fine Arts, at the school of Achille Funi in whose studio he was employed as an assistant.
From 1959 to 1965, he worked closely with his master Achille Funi on numerous grandiose fresco decorations. Taking stock of the work of Umberto Mariani’s work , one of the last great contemporary artists, is a c omplex undertaking that involves retracing the path of an artistic research that was at the same time also cultural and social stretching from the mid-1960s to the present day.
