O’REILLYS Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver Auction Starting 16th November 2022 at 1pm

7 S P O T L I G H T O N A N A R T I S T Claudio Giulianelli Claudio Giulianelli was born in 1956 in Rome, Italy. Like a lot of ar tists, ar t was not his original chosen career path. Initially, he studied chemical sciences, but soon his interest in the ar ts became greater and he began to study the history of ar t and focus on painting techniques. This interest in ar t arose in Claudio, so he says, during his summer holidays as a child in Por to Ercole, Tuscany, where he learned of the legend of Caravaggio’s (1571 - 1610) death from old fishermen. Supposedly, Caravaggio made it to the area on foot before dying in a hospital there of a deadly fever in 1610 and is said to be buried in a cemetery nearby; this is enough to grab the attention of any child and draw them into the dramatic ar t world. He also has mentioned that he was left “bewildered” by the work of Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516) as a schoolchild. His works are heavily influenced by these 15th and 16th century ar tists. Claudio Giulianelli considers himself to be a “symbolist” painter as well as “hermetic” and creates works in which the primary figures interact with the subject of alchemy in the TIMED ONLINE AUCTION OF FINE JEWELLERY, WATCHES & SILVER • WEDNESDAY, 16th NOV 2022 AT 1PM Lot 518