Linecuts

Made between the 1960s and today and never put on display, these engravings, between linoleum and woodcuts printed on dusting paper, tell of a long-standing passion for this technique. 

Among the woodcuts that originated from original drawings: besides Heraclitus plays dice, the, first work, are a series of trees and three eroticis ex libris that were part of an art book in the 1990s.

Many images from emblem books. Among them: those dedicated to love passion from a volume published in Antwerp in 1608 entitled Amorum Emblemata by Otto van Veen. The latter are the subject of an art book in 100 copies entitled Fragments of a Diary and Signs of Love. 

Emblems such as Hope, Dissimulation and Darkness are taken instead from Andrea Alciati's 1531 Book of Emblems and Cesare Ripa's 1603 Iconology.

Among the latest engravings, many born during the pandemic blackout, two come from the so-called 'Sun and Busca' Tarot deck preserved in the Brera Art Gallery. This is the oldest complete Italian tarot deck (and also the oldest existing in the world), named after its owners (the Sola Busca heirs).