Danielle Villicana D’Annibale was born in San Francisco, in California, in 1972. In 1994 she graduated in Art History and the Visual Arts with a B.A. from Occidental College of Los Angeles. The love for the Renaissance took her to Italy in the same year, where she attended important masters and Florentine atelier, from Charles Cecil Studios to the Florence Academy, to the studio of Silvestro Pistolesi in 1996. Afterwards she learned the technique of fresco at the school of Leonetto Tintori of Prato. In 2001 she enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome. She continued in the meantime her plastic and pictorial research, veering towards abstraction: the series Cigarette Box Paintings takes life. With the academic diploma obtained in 2006, the American transfered to Arezzo, where she could live in close contact with the art of Piero della Francesca. Collaborating with her husband Maurizio D’Annibale, light designer, Danielle Villicana D'Annibale began working on the project Villa Margherita a Paradise for Artists in Tuscany and opened, in 2010, a contemporary art gallery in the heart of the city, immediately becoming a favoured meeting place for Italian and foreign artists. Since 1994 she has participated in solo and group exhibits in Italy and the United States. She is a member of the California Art Club, Toscana Cultura and founder of the Villa Margherita International Art Club.