to contemporary Italian metaphysical painting. Afterwards came a period of secluded work in which he tackled the theme of Invisible Cities. His solo exhibitions are now increasingly rare, according to an aspiration to a reserved silence and a rejection of the current spectacularizing and business planning of art. He is an artist whose works, generally restrained in size and often built on the golden section, have been likened by critics to the modes of Magic Realism. Collections Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany Fantastic Art Collection, Gruyères Castle, Switzerland FAI Heritage (National Trust of Italy), Milan Lombardy regional art collection, Palazzo Lombardia, Milan Heritage of the Municipality of Monza Paul VI Art collection, Concesio, (Brescia) Gonzaga Museum, Mantua Tarots Museum, Riola di Vergato, (Bologna) Mario Novaro Foundation, Genoa Museo dei Trasporti, La Spezia Pietrasanta City Council art collection Cervia City Council art collection Vatican Contemporary Art Collection, Rome Ravello City Council art collection Province of Palermo paintings collection, Palermo See also Magic realism Bibliography Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin Catalogo d’Arte Moderna, Mondadori, Milan Art & Tabac, catalogo della mostra al Tabakmuseum, Vienna, 1995 P. Morselli, F. Gozzi, U. Montanari, Carnevalesca, il travestimento, la festa, catalogo della mostra a Cento, Ed. Siaca, Cento, 2003 Gian Paolo Dulbecco, La via Crucis per la Chiesa di S.Gemma Galgani in Monza (1983-85), Monza, 2006 C. Caserta, Pulcinella, viaggio nell’ultimo Novecento - Dulbecco, Lubelli, Luzzati, Mautone, ESI, Napoli, 2006, Dopo de Chirico. La pittura metafisica italiana contemporanea. Catalog - Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, 2012, C.Caserta, Gian Paolo Dulbecco, antologia della pittura, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2016, A.Sartori: Catalogo Sartori d'arte moderna e contemporanea - 2018, Archivio Sartori Editore, Mantova, 2018 N.Del Buono: The best of the year, 90 Italian highlights, AD (Italy), Nov. 2019 V.P.Cremolini, I mondi di Dulbecco, Edizioni del Porticciolo, La Spezia, 2022 External links Gian Paolo Dulbecco Ten Dreams Galleries Settemuse Artist's website: dulbecco.eu 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters 21st-century Italian painters 1941 births Modern painters Living people 21st-century Italian male artists