Cars
Mille Miglia
by Luciano Vittori
The legendary racing cars of the Mille Miglia, weathered into fresco against the stone rooftops of a Tuscan town.
From the mountains of Tuscany · Anno 2019
Heritage Fresco
Classical painting, weathered into age-old fresco.
The origin
What is more Italian
than the fresco?
A legacy of painting, brought back to life.
In 2019, high in the mountains of beautiful Tuscany, master painter Luciano Vittori was met with a reproach. His classic Mille Miglia cars were painted impeccably — yet beyond the region there was little that felt unique, little that was truly Italian about his work.
Together with his daughter Elena — a gifted animal painter, celebrated for the soul in her speaking eyes — he set out to answer it. After a long search, the answer met the question itself: what, in all of painting, is more Italian than the fresco?
They began to experiment, working their paintings as if they were age-old frescoes: cracked plaster, a weathered surface, the patina of centuries. It struck a chord with a wide Italian audience. With this site we introduce this legacy of painting to the whole world — which we proudly call Heritage Fresco.
Years later, on a walking holiday in these same mountains, the Dutch painter Marion van den Ende found her way to their door. She stayed to learn — first as their apprentice, now as the ambassador who carries Heritage Fresco to the rest of the world.
The series
Five series, one legacy
Each series carries the signature of its maker — and the patina of centuries. Below, a key work from every collection.
Dogs
Tuscanian Animals & Dogs
by Elena Vittori
Animals with a soul — speaking eyes that hold your gaze, caught in the skin of an ancient fresco.
Psychology
Weathered Soul
by Marion van den Ende
The human face as a weathered wall — where psychology and stone converge, and every crack carries a life's story.
Women
Women of the World
by Marion van den Ende
Women from every corner of the earth, each carried by the weight of their culture and time — the everyday raised to ritual.
Cars
Native Grounds
by Luciano Vittori
Iconic classic cars portrayed in the land that made them — the Ford GT40 at Tower Bridge, the Citroën before the Eiffel Tower.
Commissions
Your own Heritage Fresco, on request
All three artists also create exclusive works on commission. A cherished person, a beloved animal, a car with a story — Luciano, Elena and Marion turn it into a unique Heritage Fresco, weathered as though it has hung for centuries. Every commission is one of a kind.
These portraits of Marion's own dogs, Rico and Durack, were painted by Elena — not for sale, but proof of what a commission can be.
The method
How a Heritage Fresco comes to be
I
The painting
It all begins with a masterful painting: a classic car, an animal with soul, a speaking face — painted by hand and with true craftsmanship.
II
The fresco treatment
The image is then worked as if it has existed for centuries: cracked plaster, weathered stone, a woven surface. The legacy of the Italian fresco.
III
The patina
Finally, time does its work. Cracks and weave fuse subject and surface into a single memory. The image becomes a relic.
The artists
Three hands, one legacy
Two Italian painters and their Dutch apprentice — three hands bound not by blood, but by a single devotion: to let the present be carried by the patina of the past.
Luciano Vittori
Founder · Mille Miglia
Master painter of classic racing cars. His search for something unmistakably Italian gave the movement its name and its form.
Elena Vittori
Co-founder · Animals & Dogs
Daughter of Luciano and a gifted animal painter. Renowned for the soul in her animals — speaking eyes that hold your gaze long after.
Marion van den Ende
Artist & ambassador · Weathered Soul, Women of the World
Met Luciano and Elena during a walking holiday in Tuscany and became their apprentice. Brings Heritage Fresco to the rest of the world through her own series and online expertise.
Together they are Heritage Fresco: two generations of the Vittori family, and the Dutch painter who carries their craft into the world.
Collect
Museum quality,
in limited edition
Every work is printed on Hahnemühle fine-art paper and mounted on Dibond — a museum-grade aluminium support. Each in a strictly limited edition, numbered and certified.
I
Hahnemühle on Dibond
Fine-art photo paper on aluminium: colourfast, perfectly flat and enduring — of museum quality.
II
Limited edition
Only 4 or 24 pieces per work. Once gone, gone for good.
III
Certificate of authenticity
Every piece is delivered with a numbered certificate of authenticity.
IV
Registered
Recorded in the renowned MyArtRegistry.com, so provenance and ownership remain traceable.
The paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art
Hahnemühle has made paper in Germany since 1584. Their fine-art papers are pure — 100% cotton rag, acid- and lignin-free — the same archival quality museums demand. It is this surface that holds the cracked plaster and weathered stone of a Heritage Fresco with the depth of a true painting.
Printed with pigment inks, the colours are certified lightfast for well over a century: the work you hang today will look the same for generations.
The support: aluminium Dibond
The print is then bonded to Dibond — two thin sheets of aluminium around a solid polyethylene core. It is the mounting standard of the world's museums and galleries: dead flat, rigid yet light, and unmoved by damp or changing temperature.
No glass, no frame required. The image floats as a single, seamless object — clean at the edge, and built to last a lifetime and beyond.