Confined inside an 800-year-old Italian palace, 3 artists share their experience of solitude and financial struggle in lockdown

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• Three artists spent Italy's coronavirus lockdown in Palazzo Monti, a former palace that now hosts an artist residency in the northern Italian city of Brescia.
• They say they have drawn inspiration from their impressive surroundings, though the traumas of COVID-19's impact on the Lombardy region have been an influence as well. One describes using "darker colors" in his art lately.
• The pandemic has wrought a large financial toll, and an art curator says the effect on travel could have major long-term implications for the ways he does his job.
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Just like the rest of us, the Danish artist Leonardo Anker Vandal has had to deal with a shortage of items under lockdown. For him, that meant no new brushes and a dearth of paints for the past two months, resulting in his "using trash" to make art for income.

All while being confined inside a three-story palace in the northern Italian city of Brescia, about 1 1/2 hours east of Milan.

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