Born in 1998 in San Daniele del Friuli, Italy. Lives and works between San Giovanni al Natisone and Spilimbergo, Italy.

Michele Cesaratto an Italian painter whose work is shaped by his studies in Florence and Venice, drawing deeply from the traditions of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian painting. Influenced by artists such as Fra Angelico, Pisanello, and Gentile da Fabriano, his practice embraces a sense of “ancient naivety”—a pure, self-generated approach marked by delicate detail, attention to nature, and subtle irony. Alongside these Western roots, Cesaratto engages with Chinese landscape painting, where the act of painting becomes a contemplative, almost spiritual exercise. His works unite these two traditions, inviting slow looking and meditation, much like a medieval prayer diptych or a Chinese painted silk scroll.