Antonella Leoni

Antonella Leoni was born in Italy in 1959 and lives in Cairo. She postgraduated Diploma in Asian Art at British Museum by Royal Holloway College , University of London and completed The Classical and Decorative Arts of the Islamic World in 2003 with distinction. Antonella Leoni is currently attending the Arabic Calligraphy Academy Bab El Luq in Cairo which completes her knowledge in all essential elements of Islamic Art: Calligraphy and Ornamentation. It was in 2015 at Cairo International Bienn…See all

Antonella Leoni was born in Italy in 1959 and lives in Cairo. She postgraduated Diploma in Asian Art at British Museum by Royal Holloway College , University of London and completed The Classical and Decorative Arts of the Islamic World in 2003 with distinction. Antonella Leoni is currently attending the Arabic Calligraphy Academy Bab El Luq in Cairo which completes her knowledge in all essential elements of Islamic Art: Calligraphy and Ornamentation. It was in 2015 at Cairo International Biennial of The Arabic  Calligraphy Art that she discovered about the Art of Ebru, the turkish art of marbling paper. Ebru is one of the oldest turkish traditional art, it was used in bookbindings and to frame Calligraphy and represents  an abstract  expression of islamic art, especially in its most ancient form which is called “Battal Ebrusu” Although this is the simplest form of ebru  in term of the process, it is the most difficult considering the result . Antonella Leoni recent work shows a remarkable combination of the art of calligraphy and ebru.See less