Blog Now on streetpainting.tv: 37th Annual Grazie di Curtatone Street Painting Competition

This is the original street painting competition, started in 1972 in Mantua, Italy, to preserve the art form of the madonnari (street painters). The competition is held each August during the public holiday of the Feast of the Assumption. Traditional religious and Renaissance themed street paintings are created in chalk on the piazza in front of the town's church in a 24 hour period under...