★Simplified Chinese rights is sold!
★2017 Italian Andersen Award Best dissemination project.
★Mention Bologna Ragazzi Award - non fiction title.
★ Small Portable Art Gallery Seriesis a series of children's art cultivation books jointly launched by Painter's Star Press and Florence Municipal Museum. Art galleries are places where all kinds of paintings are kept. This series of books are selected from famous works of art, aiming to make each book into a collection of themed art gallery works, small and portable, so that children can immerse themselves in a good art atmosphere anytime and anywhere.
★ Not only can you see masterpieces of art, but this series of books also provides every child with the opportunity to doodle, color, cut, collage and other hands-on activities. The finished works can be used to decorate the room, so that the home can become a museum of unique, children's own works.
★The series invites the best illustrators of the Italian and international scene to tackle the great themes of the history of painting: portraits, animals, still life, etc. By reproducing the masterpieces of the present and the past in the form of drawings and sketches, the authors offer children an original exercise in drawing and attention.

The series includes 20 titles: Colors, Black, Green, Blue, Yellow, White, Red, Human beings, Outside, "Playing. The art of entertainment", Typography, Wonderful fables by Antonio Canova, Eating at the table of the art masters, Mosaics, Depero and the house of the wizard, "Giotto. A sketchbook", Still-life painting, Ladies and knights, "Paintings, pictures, animals", Landscapes

A hundred thousand billion cells: it is what a human being needs to exist. Each of them belongs to a system of vital organs and together they make about 270 bones, 32 teeth, a beating heart, an almost always intelligent brain and many other things. Andrea Nante introduces the latest PiPPo, dedicated to the study of the human body in Art. Illustrations by Sylvie Bello help readers overcome their intimidation to the great masters as re-drawing their works is the best way to learn art history and keep it in memory.

Andrea Nante is an Art historian. Since 2000, he is director of Museo Diocesano in Padua. From 1996 to 1999 he worked at the Andrea Palladio International Centre for Architectural Studies, in Vicenza. He was teacher of Ancient and Medieval Art History at the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara.

Sylvie Bello is a French illustrator born in Besançon in 1980. Her background is textile design but she's rather passionate about drawing and illustration. After her education, she moved to Italy where she started her career with International exhibitions such as Ilustrarte in Lisbon or I colori del Sacro in Padua. In 2015 she was awarded Premio della Critica at Tapirulan contest. She often works with monotype but she likes graphite and traditional handmade techniques like engraving and silk-screen printing. She thinks doing picture books can change the world. She collaborates with Else edizioni, America Mag, Revue XXI, Rai Educational, The Parisianer.