Valentina Sciuttibehance.netValentina Sciutti is an Italian artist who was born in Genoa and received her bachelor's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts there. Her Bulgakov illustrations became the subject of her thesis, and they are quite remarkable. The works demonstrate a distinctive style and a confident hand, reflecting her deep fascination with the source material.
But what is the first thing we see in these pictures? The first thing we notice is a copyright notice placed directly across every image. Dear artists, please never do this. Copyright protection on the internet works in a completely different way, and this approach just ruins your own work. We don't want anything to distract us from your artwork and prevent us from focusing on their content. Today, neural networks can easily remove such a watermark, but we won't do it—it will forever remain on the pictures as a lesson for future generations (even though the website mentioned has long since disappeared).
The artist chose the phrase “Manuscripts don't burn” as the epigraph for her illustrations. No, I'll leave it in Italian, it sounds more beautiful that way: “I manoscritti non bruciano”
Woland, squinting slyly, is plotting something
Swallows flying into the colonnade during Yeshua's interrogation
Ivan, with a wedding candle and mad eyes, chases the foreign professor-consultant
The financial director and administrator of the Variety Theatre are surprised as they read telegrams from Yalta from Styopa Likhodeyev
The head-tearing session on the Variety Theatre stage
Margarita with yellow flowers in a crowd
An empty suit is busy with important matters
Behemoth in glasses reads a passport turned upside down
Margarita in front of a mirror, rubbing herself with the magic cream
And finally
