Giovanni Caselli
, b. 1939
Giovanni Caselli is a Florentine painter, illustrator, children’s author, anthropologist and archaeologist who has previously lived in London. He has been involved in creating paintings reconstructing historical life since the 1960s, and sometimes illustrates tarot decks.
Much of Caselli’s work focuses on the classical or mythical world. He illustrated another child’s anthology of myth, Jacqueline Morley’s 2002 Greek Myths, and wrote books for the In Search of series about famous archaeological excavations such as Troy and Knossos, as well as the History of Everything series, which discusses history from specific points in time such as Rome and the Renaissance. He has also illustrated the card deck for the game The New Mythic Tarot Deck.
Sources:
Michael Gibson and Giovanni Caselli, Gods, Men and Monsters from the Greek Myths, Oxon: Peter Lowe (Eurobook Limited), 1977. Biographical information at front of book.
jacketflap.com (accessed: February 8, 2021).
penguin.co.uk (accessed: February 8, 2021).
macmillan.com (accessed: February 8, 2021).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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