Illustrationintheworld

  Alberto Fabio Lorenzi (Fabius) was born in Florence in 1880. About ten oils remain of his artistic activity in the first decade of the 1900s and as many prints of illustrations. An almost unknown artist in Italy, he was one of the most brilliant illustrators of French publishing products in the first magical decades of the 1900s, managing to integrate perfectly into the artistic community of Paris. He was among the first to reflect himself and follow the new artistic current of those years, the Art N ou veau .

  He was the creator of Coleridge’s Rhytme of the Ancient Marines in 1910, in fact he’s remembered for his meticolously detals of pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. He was living in London, but in 1914 he moved to America and his success blossomed considerably when his work was in the featured on the covers of many poplular magazines.