Sidival Fila
Memoriae Cartoni Raphaelis
Mar 26 - Sep 27, 2026
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy

As part of the project with the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan—one of Europe’s oldest cultural institutions and home to an extraordinary artistic and archival heritage—Sidival Fila has been commissioned to create a new artwork using a historically and symbolically significant material: the vegetable-fiber canvas originally applied in the late 18th century to line the preparatory cartoon for Raphael’s “School of Athens”.
This textile, first used during restoration work while the artwork was in Paris at the Louvre and later removed during more recent conservation interventions, is now given a new life through Sidival Fila’s artistic intervention.

Sidival Fila
Born in 1962 in the state of Parana, Brazil
Lives and works in Rome, Italy
Lives and works in Rome, Italy








































