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MISIA BROADHEAD Stories & Photos by Richard Hooper
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y the age of 8, Misia Broadhead already knew that she wanted to be an artist, a painter. Born in Washington, D.C., she had been living in Rome since the age of 4, and the culture, history and art had already impressed itself upon her. It continued to do so during her next 26 years of residence there (with an interlude of studying art at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London). As an adolescent, she adorned her bedroom with a poster, not of a rock star or an actor or actress, but of Sandro Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus.” As Misia stated, “I grew up in Rome. Art is all around you. You live it, breathe it. It’s in your soul. You are surrounded by layer and layer of cultural history.” And, if you are someone like Misia, living in the place where the Renaissance began makes an indelible impression. Misia would return to the United States annually to visit her grandmother, Gladys Artist | From page 51
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