<strong>Mimmo Paladino</strong> was born in 1948 in Paduli, in the province of Benevento. An undisputed protagonist of the international art scene, he is one of the key figures of the <strong>Transavanguardia</strong> movement, a term coined by the critic Achille Bonito Oliva in 1980 to define the return to painting and figuration following years of conceptual dominance. Paladino's artistic formation is rooted in the cultural climate of the 1960s, but it was in the early 1970s that his research underwent a decisive turning point. During this period, the artist began to focus on <strong>drawing</strong>, introducing those mythological subjects that would later acquire a role of fundamental importance in his mature production. His works are not mere representations but true visual palimpsests that draw from <strong>archaeological and mythological sources</strong>, encompassing Egyptian, Etruscan, Greco-Roman, Early Christian, and Romanesque art.

<strong>Stylistic evolution and multime...