This work (r:0475) of 1991 is realized with intervention of painting on photo and precedes the intuition of the photo-painting that started in a structured way in 1994 with the male emperor of naples (r.0643) portraits and self-portraits i started from a young age (8 years) to put on paper my "daydreams" that at elementary school i was interrupted by a jolt when the teacher yelled at me: "dario comes back to us!". Today (2024) i have therefore 66 years that i do portraits the first of which was dedicated to napoleon bonaparte of whom i had had several stories of great enterprises that had me passionate. In fact, in my life i have read many biographies of great characters that have always fascinated me because they were the only ones i could read because they told true stories. I explain better instead what happened while i read the novels: my fantasy overlapped to that of the author and so only after dozens of pages i noticed it and had to go back. In fact i did not remember what i had read with my eyes and not with my mind! returning to the portraits i used almost all techniques from pencil to pastel painting up to digital processing adding another reserved only portrait: the photo collage. It is a photo (taken by me or received from a collector like you) that i digitally process with a technique invented by me (and recorded) that, after various framing tests, allows me to process the final image on the computer. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no official proof of authenticity, however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity issues arising from misattribution