Flavio Costantini
Flavio Costantini (21 September 1926 – 20 May 2013) was an Italian artist. Costantini created portraits of writers and artists for newspapers, and illustrated several novels. His early works were inspired by the novelist
Franz Kafka, and by literary,
utopian and
anarchist ideals. His later work presented a pessimistic view of civilization. He created series of paintings exploring historical themes: Anarchy, the wreck of the ''
Titanic'',
alchemy and
Mozart, the
French Revolution and its victims,
Yekaterinburg and the murder of
Nicholas II and his family. His last series offered a dark reading of ''
Pinocchio'', which he considered one of the three or four greatest Italian novels.
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