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Pietro Baguzzi was born in Mantua in 1935. Whilst studying classics in Milan, he took courses in photography and, at the end of his studies, decided to dedicate himself to photographing works of art for publications. He has worked with some of the leading publishing houses, both in Italy and abroad, producing books of breathtaking quality for Fratelli Fabbri in the 1960s and, more recently, for Rizzoli and the Japanese publisher Shogakukan, amongst many others. Baguzzi himself admits to a preference for photographing sculpture and archaeological artefacts, although these are the most difficult works of art to capture on film.

		akg2-G60-S5-23 (detail) Stele of a youth in a heroic pose, Greek 3rd or 2nd Century BC, now in the Ducal Palace in Mantua. Photo: akg-images / Piero Baguzzi

akg2-G60-G2-42-2 Attic red-figure psykter depicting a symposium. The detail shows an agapa with two Skyphoi. Now in the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Photo: akg-images / Piero Baguzzi

		akg2-G71-S2-131 A highly ornate Celtic disc from the Latene Era in the early 4th Century BC, found in Auvers-sur-Oise and now in the Cabinet des Médailles in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Photo: akg-images / Piero Baguzzi

akg2-M120-O3-1526 Giulio Romano's "Olympus" (the Olympian gods watch the Fall of the Titans) from the Sala dei Giganti ceiling fresco in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, painted 1526-35. Photo: akg-images / Piero Baguzzi

		akg2-M180-A2-1889-6 Toulouse-Lautrec's "Portrait de Henri Fourcade (Monsieur Henri Fourcade au bal de l'Opera)", 1889, now in the Museu de Arte in São Paolo. Photo: akg-images / Piero Baguzzi