Italian Seductions

What I’m sharing today is just a pencil sketch — yet behind every line lies a long tradition.
Italy, more discreet than Paris or Berlin, still shaped a fascinating landscape of erotic art throughout the 20th century: hidden magazines, cosmopolitan illustrators, and unforgettable comics.

Brunelleschi staged feathers and velvet with refined irony.
In the ’60s, Crepax created Valentina — modern, independent, iconic.
Leone Frollo painted dreamy atmospheres, delicate yet provocative.
And Manara turned eroticism into a universal language, elegant and instantly recognizable.

To draw eros in Italy has always meant playing a subtle game between elegance and scandal.
This sketch is simply my way of keeping the game alive. 🎀