One of the most brilliant set designers in world cinema, Dante Ferretti began working in Italy with directors such as Pasolini and Fellini, and later abroad for several Hollywood productions. A free thinker and an original supporter of an aesthetics of the ‘marvelous,’ he has revolutionized the panorama of film production design with ingenious ideas like the vertical labyrinth in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name of the Rose (1986), with the visionary power expressed in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) and with his ability to transfigure neighborhoods and cities in his reconstructions for the films of Martin Scorsese. In his long career he has garnered ten Academy Award nominations, with three wins, all with his wife Francesca Lo Schiavo, for Scorsese’s The Aviator (2005), followed by Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd (2008) and Hugo (2011), again with Scorsese. He was also scenic designer for several opera productions, including La Traviata directed by Liliana Cavani and staged in his birth town of Macerata, and a Carmen set in Franco’s Spain of the thirties. In 2013 the New York MoMA dedicated a personal exhibition to his work entitled Dante Ferretti. Design and construction for cinema.