Florencia de Amesti

De Amesti was born 6 April 1925 in Santiago^[1][2] to Félix de Amesti [es] and Rebeca Gazitúa Alvarez de la Rivera. De Amesti was the sister of the painter Leonor De Amesti.

De Amesti studied painting and drawing at the University of Chile.^[1] In 1956, De Amesti enrolled at the newly established Taller 99 where she specialized in metal engraving and studied under Nemesio Antúnez.^[1][3][4]

Between 1969 and 1972, De Amesti taught engraving at the Las Condes Cultural Institute [es] and the Providencia Cultural Institute (Spanish: Fundación Cultural de Providencia) in Santiago. In 1970, De Amesti won the ARMCO award at the IV American Print Biennial (Spanish: Bienal Americana de Grabado).^[1][5]

In 2003, De Amesti's work Collages y Dibujos was nominated for the Altazor Award of the National Arts in engraving and drawing.^[6]

De Amesti was married to Hernán Davanzo Corte, a psychiatrist, with whom she had one child.^[7]