Where care becomes in color
with artist Silvio Irilli
The story of a project that excites the audience
OUR NUMBERS
Painted Hospitals is the major Italian art project to humanize hospitals that through art transforms wards into environments of hope and emotion.
The initiative has no cost to Public Health but is supported by associations, ODV/ETS, foundations, companies and individuals to donate timeless work and stand by patients, their families and doctors and nurses.
SPECIAL
GASLINI HOSPITAL OF GENOA
SPECIAL
HOSPITAL OF PADUA
SILVIO IRILLI ON RAI2 AT TG2 MIZAR
20/04/2025 :: Silvio Irilli on Rai2 on Tg2 MIZAR told about the humanization project Painted Hospitals that has been transforming hospital wards for 13 years. Thanks to Clelia Passafiume. Watch the full video

“DREAMING IN COLOR” IN CENTRAL STATION IN MILAN
For several days now, the “Dreaming in Color” campaign in collaboration with OBM Children's Hospital Milan - Buzzi Onlus has been on the monitors at Milan Central Station
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

“ In a few hours we transform the color department with an emotional journey.
An environment that excites and relaxes is part of care, because the patient is above all a person “
(Silvio Irilli, artist and founder of Painted Hospitals)
THE WORKS.

THE INTERVIEWS.
The interview with SILVIO IRILLI by Paola Saluzzi in the program “L’Ora Solare” on TV2000
The interview with SILVIO IRILLI on Rai News24
The service on the TGR RAI of Lazio
THE VIDEOS
BEFORE and AFTER – Children’s neurorehabilitation Fondazione Santa Lucia – Rome
“Treasure Island” Pediatric Oncohematology Gaslini Hospital of Genoa.
THEY SAY ABOUT US.
“Beaches, rainbows, the sea and a pirate galleon: this is not a fairy tale, but the theme of the drawings decorating the walls of the new radiotherapy department. So that the hours in the ward can be less difficult and the little patients and their families can experience the delicate moments of treatment with greater serenity. Thank you Silvio Irilli.”
"You see things as they are and wonder why?
I dream of things that have never been and wonder “why not” !
Thank you for turning a "why not" into a 'work of art."
“With this work, the children also find their World in the Hospital in a difficult context such as the Emergency Room, which becomes a comfortable, relaxing environment with the idea of play together with historical elements of the area . Seeing the smiles of the first children who were admitted to the rooms that were first completed with the works of the artist IRILLI was an incredible satisfaction for us.”
“Dear Silvio, you have managed to build a path of reassuring images, using art as a sublime metaphor of great and comfortable embrace of energy and color. I am happy to have realized a dream with a dear friend and great artist, a passionate person of infinite and concrete humanity that you can” touch “in your smile and availability. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Silvio.”
“Better than this you could not realize the department named after my Nadia.”
“It's like entering a magical world, thinking we're in an ICU instead...the feeling of peace, enveloped by water with those magnificent dolphins accompanying you. I hope the effect it had in me will be the same as it will be in our children and parents. I am sure that tension and pain will be mitigated by this wonder. Thank you Silvio!”
“We are very proud of the collaboration with Painted Hospitals, Master Irilli was able to interpret our requests perfectly, hitting the joint goal of giving joy to hospitalized children.”