Renato Casaro

Renato Casaro
Renato Casaro (2016)
Born	(1935-10-26) October 26, 1935 (age 81) Treviso, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Poster art, Illustration
Awards	Ciak d'oro, 1988 Ciak d'oro, 1991 Jupiter Award, 1992

Renato Casaro (born Oct 26, 1935 in Treviso, Italy) is an Italian artist known for his movie posters, which include films like My Name Is Nobody, Quadrophenia, Conan the Barbarian, Tenebrae, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Red Sonja and Flesh and Blood. He is considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian's film poster artists. He has made hundreds of works dedicated to the cinema, becoming very popular abroad. He has also painted calendars, collectibles, book covers and album covers.

Renato Casaro was born on October 26, 1935, in Treviso Italy. His early interest in posters reportedly began with movie advertisements in the cinema where he used to go every day to see if they were changing the posters and when they were he would ask if could take them home where he try to reproduce it. In 1953 Renato at age 18, found a job as a staff artist at Studio Favalli a famous design and art studio of Rome film industry. Always in Rome, at age 21, Renato open his own art studio.

Dino de Laurentiis hired Casaro in 1965 to design the poster images for the film The Bible: In the Beginning.... After that Casaro worked on many films with De Laurentiis, like Flash Gordon, Dune and Conan the Barbarian. In the same time Casaro continued his business, producing posters for different directors like Sergio Leone, Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Franco Zeffirelli and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.