Michel
Salerno
Michel Salerno graduated from Villa Arson. He also received training in locksmithing, brassware, restoration, blacksmithing, fine steel, bronze assembly and cutting. Specializing in metal work, Michel Salerno manages to dexterously combine delicate ancestral know-how with a contemporary vision of the medium.
Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Ingres, Célestin Nanteuil is the Romantic engraver par excellence. Inspired by the literature of the Romantic period—Hugo, Dumas, and Gautier—he placed his creative independence and his ornamentalist flair at the service of writers, painters, and journals, with all of his work being illustrations or interpretations.
This photograph is part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century.
