He lived in Corona del Mar, California.

He illustrated the poster for the 1979 movie "Nosferatu."

He was probably best known for illustrating the Aquarian Tarot deck.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/corona-del-mar-ca/david-palladini-8205790
(short obit)

https://suntup.press/news/david-palladini-has-passed-away/
(remembrance from last March, with photos)


From "Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults":

David Palladini's lush and whimsical illustrations adorn the pages of storybooks by Jane H. Yolen, Barbara Wersba, and Stephen King, among others. An
immigrant who came to America with his family when he was only two, Palladini has received numerous
awards for his work in children's books. Some of his art works hang in New York's Metropolitan Museum and at the Museum of Warsaw in Poland. "I think most
people who try to become creative writers or actors or artists do so by overcoming the discouraging
remarks of other people--all the 'shouldn'ts' and the 'can'ts,'" Palladini once
commented. "It is characteristic of all the artists I know to continue to create despite the pain."

Born in Roteglia, Italy, Palladini came to the United States with his parents in 1948. The family settled in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. There Palladini attended public schools and drew pictures without any thought as to a
career as an artist. "
Drawing was for me, as it was for many artists I've met since, an escape," Palladini once commented. "I was always drawing or reading and was well known in Highland Park as the kid who had read all the books in the children's library by the time he was
twelve. After that, I moved to the adult library."

The books Palladini found most interesting were those with illustrations and drawings, especially the works of Howard Pyle. Pyle's pictures of Arthurian legends and the medieval period were particularly inspirational to Palladini. "The first drawings
that I did as an illustrator were all based on that era, and I still work with the medieval period," Palladini once explained.

In high school Palladini exhausted almost every elective course before he entered an art class in his junior year. His art teacher was immediately impressed with his talent and encouraged him to develop it. That very same year, Palladini was offered a
four-year scholarship to the Pratt Institute to study art.

At Pratt, Palladini majored in film and photography rather than drawing or painting. In fact, he left college in the middle of his senior year to photograph the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. "I was a good photographer and when I returned to New York, I
had every intention of setting up a studio and becoming a professional," he recalled. "I soon discovered the reality of that world: you need a lot of money
to set up and equip a studio. I couldn't afford it so I went to Push Pin Studios, 'the place' for
commercial artists in New York. After I showed them my portfolio of drawings from art school they hired me on the spot."

Palladini has never restricted himself merely to children's books. He has also done book jackets for children and adults, movie posters, and paintings. He has
taught at the School of Visual Arts and has lectured elsewhere on painting and illustration...

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From Wikipedia:

David Palladini (April 1, 1946 – March 13, 2019)[1] was an American illustrator,[2] best known for his Aquarian Tarot deck (Morgan Press, 1970) and
its reworking as the New Palladini Tarot (1997, U.S. Games Systems), and illustrations of children's
books, especially The Girl Who Cried Flowers and other tales by Jane Yolen (T. Y. Crowell, 1973). His style is reminiscent of the Art Nouveau illustrations of
Alfons Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley, and the Art Deco designs of Erte.

Palladini was born in Italy and emigrated to America as a child. His dual cultural background is expressed in the lush creativity of his work. After studying art, photography, and film at the Pratt Institute in New York City, he
was a photographer at the
1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on his first job.

Palladini illustrated the second edition of a novel by Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon (Viking, 1987). The artwork was rendered in pencil and ink on Bienfeng velour paper.[citation needed] Depending on retention of the illustrations subsequently,
that may be his most widely held work in WorldCat libraries. Otherwise Yolen's The Girl Who Cried Flowers is his most widely held, by a wide margin.[3] He also did an edition of Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
by Robin McKinley (
1978), her first novel...

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http://www.davidpalladini.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarioPalladini/

https://www.meibohmfinearts.com/PDFs/Palladini_Bio_SuntupEditions-MarkStrong_Upd_092517_sm.pdf
(an 87-page biography of Palladini; on page 41, you can see an unpublished poster of "The Blue Lagoon," starring Brooke Shields - just search on her name;
it's easier that way; other works of his you'll see there are for "Cyrano," "Dragons & Dreams,"
Tarot cards, "Nosferatu," "Alien," “Scheherazade,” "Conan the Barbarian," "King Arthur," landscape paintings, and more)

https://www.pinterest.com/ing7777/david-palladini-art/
(some of his work)

https://www.google.com/search?q=david+palladini+books+&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwibwY6PxO3nAhVYZ98KHTrpAtMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=david+palladini+books+&gs_l=img.3...81651.83819..83987...0.0..0.135.764.0j6......0....1..gws-wiz-img.Z8Y9q-3BwQ4&ei=MoJVXpvgENjO_
Qa60ouYDQ&bih=831&biw=1282
(book covers)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/748899.David_Palladini
(reader reviews)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jane-yolen/girl-who-cried-flowers/
(review of "The Girl Who Cried Flowers")

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/lifetimes/kin-r-dragoneye.html
(review of "The Eyes of the Dragon")

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2296323-David-Palladini
(album covers)

https://suntup.press/the-eyes-of-the-dragon-art-portfolio/
(about "The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio," 2017)

https://www.google.com/search?q=david+palladini&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnxeOCyO3nAhWbEMAKHeJCClQQ_AUoBHoECBcQBg&biw=1282&bih=802
(videos - I don't know if he appears in any of them)



Writings (partial list?)

A Year (More or Less) in Jamaica, Paladin Press (Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies), 1992.

Jamaica Nice, You Know, Paladin Press (Discovery Bay, Jamaica, West Indies), 1997.

ILLUSTRATOR

Constance B. Hieatt, The Sword and the Grail, Crowell (New York, NY), 1972.

Ruth Goode, People of the Ice Age, Crowell (New York, NY), 1973.

Franklyn M. Branley, The End of the World, Crowell (New York, NY), 1974.

Jane H. Yolen, The Girl Who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales, Crowell (New York, NY), 1974.

Jane H. Yolen, The Moon Ribbon: And Other Tales, Crowell (New York, NY), 1976.

Jane H. Yolen, The Hundredth Dove, and Other Tales, Crowell (New York, NY),
1977.

Barbara Wersba, Twenty-six Starlings Will Fly through Your Mind, Harper (New York, NY), 1980.

Crescent Dragonwagon, If You Call My Name, Harper (New York, NY), 1981.

Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon, Viking (New York, NY), 1987.

Arthur Yorinks, Rosalie, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1988.

Julia R. Heiman and Joseph LoPiccolo, Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women, Prentice-Hall (Sydney, Australia), 1984.

Florence Karpin, The Prince in the Golden Tower, Viking (New York, NY), 1989.

Susan Hansson, New Palladini Tarot Deck & Book Set, United States Games Systems, 1997.

Illustrator of numerous book jackets, including Jane H. Yolen's Cards of Grief, Ace, 1984.



Lenona.

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