Giovanni Cappelli used to say that his love for painting was born at the age of ten when he posed as a model for the Italo - American artist Gino Emilio Conti, when he was a guest, of the friars at the Madonna del Monte Abbey.
Cappelli was absolutely fascinated by the painter's studio and forgot it. Cappelli's parents had intended for him to become a joiner. Working in a factory he met prof. Del Giudice who was employed there as a designer and whoon realising how artistically gifted the youngster was convinced Cappelli's parents to enrol him at Art School in Bologna. On completion of his studies, he made his return to Cesena where he met Alberto Sughi and Luciano Caldari with them he lates created the movement known as Scuola Cesenate (Cesena School ), which was particularly inspired in depicting realism and social denouncement. Cappelli preferred subjects that were figures drawn from the daily life of the commons people, from the rural and maritime life.
He stayed for periods of time during the years between 1948 - 1950 in Turin and Rome in order to be more aware of the new artistic tendencies and therefore to make the acquaintance of other painters. In 1959 he moved permanently to Milan, until the late sixties when he settled in Bogliaco a small hillside village above Lake Garda, where he concentrated his attention on landscapes. There is a considerable nucleus of his works in Indian ink on show in the Civic Gallery.
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