Ivan Cavini before 2015
Ivan Cavini (born March 1970 in Milan, Italy) is a fiction/fantasy illustrator, sculptor, and set designer highly involved with J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium as of the 2000s. In 2D illustration, he has made pencil sketches, matte paintings, and fine art pieces.
Biography[]
His art career began in 1989, after finishing studies in Bologna. In 2003, as The Lord of the Rings films began to premiere, Cavini was art director of an international exhibition, "Images from Middle-earth", with the Italian Tolkien Society. In 2007[1], Cavini was asked to assist in the making of the Greisinger Museum in Jenins, Switzerland, featuring 3D works as well as illustrations of Middle-earth owned originally by Bernd Greisinger, being the first location worldwide to give such an exhibit. In 2013, the exhibit became public and it includes large miniatures by Cavini depicting Treebeard, one of the trolls from The Hobbit, Durin's Bane, and Smaug.[2][3]
Cavini provided cover art for Claudio Testi's Pagan Saints in Middle-earth (2012), of the Cormarë Series.
"Shadow of the East", of the Witch-king upon his Black Wing
His illustrations have been used for Eterea Publishing's Italian calendar, Lords for the Ring, and two volumes of his own Middle-earth portfolio, Middle Artbook, were published in 2015 and 2023.
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