TOLKIEN AND BEYOND: THE WORLD OF PIERO CRIDA, ALCHEMIST OF THE BRUSH – Adriano Monti Buzzetti Colella

Exhibition “The Master of Watercolors: The Works of Piero Crida” – Museo del Territorio – Biella – April 2024 – ReteBiella Tv

Piero Crida – The Eighteenth Camel, 17 Sufi Proverbs – Turin International Book Fair – 2015

Age of gold

Biellaclub: The Master of Watercolors

Piero Crida: “Illustration is craftsmanship; the book cover is essentiality” – Master in Publishing Blog – 2017

Artsupp – Exhibition in Naples

Interview – Museum of the Territory – Biella

Piero Crida Tells His Story – La Stampa 2021

ITIS Q. Sella – Interview with Piero Crida – 2024

The Discovery of the Lost Drawings: An Interview with Piero Crida – Geni in Compresse – 2015<

Piero Crida at the Marano Fantasy Fest

A multifaceted artist, traveler, and a curious, restless intellectual, Piedmont native Piero Crida is the man whose evocative book covers shaped the imagination of generations of Italian readers of J.R.R. Tolkien—the demiurge of modern fantasy literature, whose works Crida also helped bring to publication in Italy. Yet, his work on the writings of the Oxford master is but one chapter in the long creative journey of this talented and unclassifiable guru of illustration (from *TG2 Storie*, October 7, 2023).

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