A native of Venice, Italy, Franco Dei Rossi was trained in the classical fashion at the prestigious Accademia art school in Venice. After experimentation in various styles and subject matter, Franco has settled comfortably into his signature style soft-focus impressionist cityscapes of Venice. While occasionally painting depictions of Tuscan landscapes, his real passion is the ancient city of Venice, its stunning architecture, and of course, its canals.

Franco Dei Rossi's paintings express an artistic vision perfectly attuned to their environment in emotions and immediacy, unfolding their message from memory to reality. Past and present yield to our eyes splendid images that spring from the relationship between visual arts and life, enfolding moments of exquisite poetical enchantment in a nature depicted with a very delicate and gentle sense of color and atmosphere, bathed in a soft light peopled with shadows and very personal mysteries.

The beautiful works by Franco are pictorial images in which the soft shaded colors are diluted in the compactness of spatiality from which emerge the sense of time and hints of wonderful visions of Venice and magnificent landscapes such as Santa Maria della Salute, Gondolas, the Entrance into the St. Mark's Basin, the Customs House Point, and others.