Born in Molfetta in 2001, Giuseppe de Palma has been interested in painting and drawing since early childhood. He attended the Artistic High School in Bari, studying Architecture while simultaneously studying painting techniques with painters Filippo Cacace and Renato Nosek.

At the age of eighteen, he visited Florence for the first time and attended a painting workshop with Cesar Santos. He fell in love with the cultural vitality of the city, and only two years later decided to move permanently from Puglia.

Once settled in Florence, he studied at The Florence Academy of Art, where, under the guidance of professional painters such as Simona Dolci, Toby Neve, Ramiro Sanchez, Tom Richards, and Daniel Graves, he developed skills in painting from life and compositional rules. These experiences brought him closer to the narrative aspect of historical paintings, which had always fascinated him.

After completing the three-year program, he was selected for the Fourth-year prize as a graduate in residence, and as a Principal instructor the following year.

Over these years, he has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and competitions. One of the most recent is his qualification as a finalist—one of only fourteen professional painters selected worldwide—in the competition held by St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome to create a “Via Crucis” for the Basilica itself.

Several of his paintings, from Portraits to Scenes of various kinds, are now present in private and public collections in Oregon, New York, Ohio, Texas, Ireland, Greece, Malta, Rome, Florence, Perugia, Milan and different cities of Apulia.