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Swiss artist (born 1937)

Sandro Del-Prete (born 1937) is a Swiss artist who creates illusionary and surrealistic paintings.

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Sandro del Prete is the premier illusion artist alive.

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His style has been compared to M. C. Escher, though it lacks the latter's mathematical precision.^[1]

Biography

Del-Prete was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1937 and went to school in Fribourg, Switzerland.^[1] When he was twenty-three Del-Prete spent six months in Florence, Italy, where he attended the Florence Academy of Art.

When he returned to Switzerland, Del-Prete began creating religious and symbolic art both in drawing and in sculpture. Initially he worked in the insurance industry and painted or drew just as a hobby.^[2]

Del-Prete's interest in Illusionism sprang from his observation of a chameleon.

He wondered ‘what the animal really saw, what picture it had of its own world’. He began to look upon different perspectives and in the early 1960s began creating illustrations that would lead to his late