Master of Art - Automata Designer and Restorer Born in Venice in 1942, Renato Boaretto was awarded the title of Maitre d'Art (Master of Art) in 1995 by the French Minister for Culture, Philippe Douste-Blazy.

"…The Maitre d'Art award is a life-long title. It goes further than a distinction in that its purpose is to make us realise a fact that is more apparent now than at any other time, the fact that our children's education would not be complete if it did not incorporate what was formerly termed "manual labour", a labour. This latter requires both intelligence and imagination, the mind and the hands, a sensitivity towards material, volume, colour and mathematical precision. The image of the cathedral builders' guild should not eclipse the role of modernity and the remarkable figure dominating over their skills, such as that of Leonardo da Vinci. The Master of Art will help us to promote the type of man or woman capable of creating a harmonious form of relationship with the world, at this, the start of a new century"… (P. Douste-Blazy, 1995)

"The Métiers d'Art are the laboratories of the future. In their workshops, thirty thousand French art's craftsmen strive hard to restore, repair and create objets d'art…

…The Maîtres d'Art, like the creators of the Living National Treasures of Japan, communicate a living, harmonious culture, sometimes referred to as a country's immaterial heritage, one that they strive hard to perfect and hand down with its endless enrichments"… (Etienne Vatelot, President of the Art's Crafts Council - 1995)

Minister for Culture : www.metiers-art.culture.fr

Renato Boaretto is also an "Arts, Sciences and Letters" medal winner.

Member of the Grands Ateliers de France : www.grandsateliers.com