A Life Painted in Plaster and Light In the quiet village of San Sebastiano Curone, a child was born who would eventually decorate the very walls of history. Felice Giani did not merely paint; he transformed spaces. His early years took him to Pavia, where he sat at the feet of Carlo Antonio Bianchi and the architect Antonio Galli Bibiena. This early exposure to architectural design shaped his hands, teaching him how a figure might inhabit a ceiling or how a painted drapery could follow the curve of a vault. He moved through Bologna, studying under Ubaldo Gandolfi and Domenico Pedrini, absorb…