Aleardo Terzi (1870–1943) was an Italian

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and

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

Life

Terzi was born in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

. He died in

Castelletto sopra Ticino Castelletto sopra Ticino, also referred to by locals as Castelletto Ticino or just Castelletto, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about north of Novara ...

in 1943. As an illustrator, Terzi was described as bringing

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

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design to a world-class level. He produced work throughout his life, notably for the Italian poster company

Casa Ricordi Casa Ricordi is a publisher of primarily classical music and opera. Its classical repertoire represents one of the important sources in the world through its publishing of the work of the major 19th-century Italian composers such as Gioachino Ro ...

. Most of his work was destroyed in the 1960s when the company cleared its warehouses. He worked as an illustrator for a

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daily called ''La Tribuna Illustrata''.Biography
Artelibrary, Retrieved 10 April 2017 He illustrated Italian versions of ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' and ''Gulliver's Travels''. His brother,

Amedeo John Engel Terzi Amedeo John Engel Terzi (1872, Palermo -1956) was an Italian illustrator and entomologist specialising in Diptera, the true flies. He was the son of Andrea Terzi (1852-1918), a lithographer and illustrator. His brother, Aleardo Terzi (1870–19 ...

(1872–1956), was also an artist (

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

specialising in

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

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* 1870 births 1943 deaths Italian illustrators Art Nouveau illustrators Artists from Palermo Italian poster artists Italian stamp designers {{Illustrator-stub