Franco Tempesta – Dino Dealer – Tribute to Frank Frazetta – Painting – Original Art

This exceptional artwork is a tribute to the great American fantasy and science fiction artist, Franz Frazetta, who has become a great source of inspiration for all comic artists.

Without losing his signature realistic style, Tempesta makes a reinterpretation of Frazetta’ss original 1973 artwork, depicting Death Dealer as never seen before, riding a Styracosaurus on a fiery battlefield and surrounded by pterosaurs flying above him.

It depicts, in oil on canvas technique, in the foreground Death Dealer dressed in warrior armor and wearing a horned helmet on a dinosaur, holding a shield and a bloody axe.

In the background, a mixture of warm colors on the right side of the composition subtly blends with cooler colors on the left side of the painting. It is worth noting the mastery of the artist’s technique, who has managed to represent with incredible precision every detail of the artwork.

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Franco Tempesta

Franco Tempesta is a multi-award-winning artist and illustrator specializing in realistic style based in Verona, Italy. The artist’s vocation began as a child, drawing animals, dinosaurs, and dragons constantly during his childhood. Since then and for the last 20 years, he has focused all his attention on the realization of realistic images of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.

He has collaborated worldwide with the most prestigious publishers such as National Geographic, Smithsonian Institute, Random House, Readerlink, Firecrest Publishing, Geoworld, Fleurus, Mondadori, and other important Italian publishers and advertising agencies.

In 1990 he became a member of the Italian Association of Illustrators and, since 2014, the Museum of Paleontology in Naples hosts a permanent exhibition dedicated to his dinosaur illustrations.

His artist’s work has won awards all over the world, including first prize at the Lanzendorf Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, first prize at the IX International Dinosaur Scientific Illustration Competition 2017, first prize at the XI International Dinosaur Scientific Illustration Competition 2019, second prize at the XII International Dinosaur Scientific Illustration Competition 2020, among others.
This original drawing is hand signed by the artist.
This unique piece includes a Certificate of Authenticity.