Beatrice Fineschi was born in Prato , the daughter of Antonio and Ada Tirinnanzi Fineschi. She did her schooling there and afterwards, attended a course of specialization in graphic arts in Los Angeles . She began to paint when very young and, encouraged by relatives and friends, since the Eighties, has participated and won prizes in numerous exhibitions held in Cervia, Piacenza, Lucca, Prato, Viareggio, Camaiore, Leghorn, Miami, Naples, Munich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Nice and Rome. She held her first solo exhibition in 1983 at the Galleria Nazionale in Lucca , then another the same year at the Navicello in Pisa , to be follewed by one in 1984 at the Galleria Metastasio, and another at the CE.P.A.C. in 1992 in Prato . In this city, she also exhibited at the Croce d'Oro and at the Art Hotel Museum in 2000. This is an intense period for the artist as it coincides with ‘solo exhibitions' held at the Politeama Pratese, in the ambit of Swarovski, “I Mille Volti del Cristallo” (Swaroswski, “The Thousand Facets of Crystal”) at the Fortezza da Basso for “USA 2000 Election Night” and at the Caffè Storico Letterario “Giubbe Rosse” in Florence 2001 is characterized by an intense activity in the USA. Beatrice Fineschi has works permanently at: The Leghom Darby Community Club. The Art Hotel Museum , The ING Agency in Firenze, Prato , Pistoia , Montecatini and Forte dei Marmi. Her paintings have been bought by corporations, associations and museums: The Forte dei Marmi Council, The Pietrasanta Council, The Museo della Carta in Pescia, The Museo Storico della Resistenza in Sant'Anna, Stazzema, St. Antony's Church in Marina di Pietrasanta, The Collezione ING in Milan, The Associazione Toscana-USA in Florence, The Centro Internazionale di Cultura e Spiritualità Frà Benedetto in Sillico, Pieve Fosciana, The Associazione Musicale Luciano Bettarini in Prato... Many have shown great interest in Beatrice Fineschi's work: art critics and historians, journalists, poets and culturalists, such as: Vittorio Sgarbi, Lodovico Gierut, Francis Jacques Mathieu, Tommaso Paloscia, Elvio Natali, Lanfranco Bertolini, Franco Riccomini, Silvia Bertolini, Raffaello Bertoli, Luciano Crescenzi, Danila Di Ciolo, Giorgio Massai, Ferruccio Belluomini, Simone Ricci, Sergio Pezzati. Her oil-paintings can also be found in important American private collections, namely: Hilary Rhodam Clinton's and Menhaem Golan's, the film director and producer. Lodovico Gierut, the art critic, has dedicated to this artist the publication: “Beatrice Finesch, lo spazio e il sentimento” (“Beatrice Fineschi, space and sentiment”), Prato 2000; at the same time, her work has been reviewed in the Press. One can also obtain various news concerning her from the periodical Leonardesca.it cultural website: www.leonardesca.it>>>