Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2024! All these artwork are eligible for the 2025 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) “The Ghost of Mars” by Dominica Phetteplace (The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #8, Infinivox, 2024) “Burning Grannies” […]
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Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2022! All these artwork are eligible for the 2023 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) PAPERBACK COVER – “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard • Cover Art for “The Year’s Top Tales of Space […]
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The American writer Dean Whitlock joins the team of experts in charge of exploring the planet Zarmina and will be staying with me at the government embassy. He will be a supervisor of the project and will help me in the translation of some relevant papyri and analysis of the legends about the divine history […]
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WOW, I’m so honored! My work “Heliopolis: Handmaid of Khepri” has been chosen as one of the 25 iCanvas Digital Art Award Finalists of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, an annual international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. This illustration is part of my ongoing art book project […]
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Welcome to the ambitious art book project for HELIOPOLIS, CAPITAL OF THE GODS. This will be a temporary Base Camp, I’ve not yet decided what’s better for letting you know updates about this adventure. Would it be better to launch a newsletter rather than update this blog? Maybe I could open a Patreon page dedicated […]
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Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2021! All these artwork are eligible for the 2022 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) PRODUCT COVER – ‘The European Stargate’ • Official POSTER illustration for EUROCON 2021 • July 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art […]
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I’ll be attending Discon III, the 2021 Worldcon in DC (December 15-19). You’ll find me on the program at the following events: Imaginative Realism – Maurizio Manzieri Wed 5:30-6:20 PM, Palladian Ballroom Kaffeeklatsch – Maurizio Manzieri Wed 8:30-9:20 PM, Suite 325 Dining Room Let’s Judge a Book by His Cover Thu 2:30 PM -3:30 PM, […]
Categories: Business • Tags: Hugo Award, WorldCon
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2020! All these artwork are eligible for the 2021 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image). Note: Larger versions of these illustrations are available in the Portfolio Section of the website. HARDBACK COVER – ‘Seven of […]
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Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2019! All these artwork are eligible for the 2020 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) HARDBACK COVER – ‘Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight’ • Cover Illustration for a story collection by Aliette de Bodard […]
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Godspeed to everybody! Here is a selected portfolio about Art published/produced in 2017… enjoy the visit!
Categories: Art Review, Uncategorized • Tags: art covers, Art review, cover art, illustration
The illustration “Child on Dragon” realized before Christmas as a greeting card for my clients. Unpublished, 2017.
Categories: Fantasy
Here is The Tea Master and the Detective, my latest illustration for Subterranean Press (link) inspired to a Xuya-Universe-novella by the formidable Aliette de Bodard, coming out as a deluxe Limited Edition on March 2018! (Note: the artwork was created in 2017).
Categories: Covers, Illustrations: color, Sci-fi • Tags: art covers, cover art, de Bodard, Xuya
WOW! Thrilled to find out that my illustration STARLIGHT EXPRESS (cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2017) has been selected for Infected by Art‘s Volume #6! Thanks to the author: Michael Swanwick, publisher: Gordon Van Gelder, editor: Charles Coleman Finlay). I’ve been winning a placement in this series since Volume […]
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This illustration inspired to the story “Pictures from an Expedition” by Alexander C. Irvine was originally published as a cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 2003). The subsequent year the artwork gained a full page in the annual SPECTRUM (11), the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. You find here the […]
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I’ve been often thinking that I should realize a series of illustrations featuring angels! What do you think? I love this topic linking astronauts to angels and I’ve seen artists I love producing similar strong images (Jeremy Geddes, just for an example)… This has been one of my most acclaimed covers: PARADISES LOST (2013), originally […]
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This was one of the best commissions to date! Fantasy & Science Fiction contacted me saying: “We have a story that seems like it’s meant for a Maurizio Manzieri cover!”: I accepted immediately of course and here you can see the result for the lovely story “Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick. The author dedicated an […]
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I’m Guest of Honor for Fantasy Basel 2017, the Swiss Comic Con! You find me in Halle 2.2, Stand #568. Do not miss my panel on April 30, at 12pm, Podium 1, Messe Basel, titled: “Recipes for the Creation of a Fantastic Universe”.
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Beginning the year with gooood news…! My artwork The Sassari Spaceport has been selected for inclusion in the volume INFECTED BY ART #5 (Hermes Press). So honored! Link: http://www.infectedbyart.com/iba5artist.asp?gid=8512
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Hi dear friends, another year spent with the Art in the Heart! Here we go with my annual parade of eligible illustrations for competitions and 2017 international Awards (finished or published in 2016)! Take a glance to all the covers and posters, then sliding down you’ll find the images without the design… Enjoy! 1) Cover […]
Categories: Art Review • Tags: Art review, cover art
I’m very honored to announce my presence as a Guest of Honor at Sassari Comics and Games 2016. Here is the illustration realized for the official Poster of the Festival!
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Wow, tight period, dear followers! Glad to announce that I’m a 2016 Italia Award Finalist for the Cover Art “Quel che Resta della Kronos” by Claudio Chillemi (Edizioni della Vigna)! Here the Italian Press Release with all the Finalists: http://www.fantascienza.com/21075/premio-italia-2016-record-di-votanti-ecco-i-finalisti
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