29081e46248af1a68e6e304163263c813cbfeb13

twitter
facebook
instagram
linkedin
youtube

©2000-2025 Anna and Elena Balbusso. All rights reserved.
All ©Balbusso twins images and content are copyrighted. No  Machine Learning, AI. You may not use our ©images, our name (as authors), and content of this website (including any caption information, keywords or other metadata associated with content) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes.The artworks above cannot be used for commercial purposes by any third parties without explicit permission from the copyright holder ©Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins. Violation of this right means an infringement of copyright law and is indictable.

50c03143a8d22527caf8b296d1c96e9145db3c05

Classic Literature Gallery

This gallery showcases a selection of our award-winning artworks of the most popular classic literature. 

We have illustrated many Ancient and Modern literature masterpieces of best-selling fiction authors including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy De Maupassant, Alexander Pushkin, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivan Turgenev, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood and more... 

Visit our sections: Illustrated Books and Bibliography
 
 

 

 

“Our work on the great novels of classic authors began many years ago. We have been lucky to be able to illustrate many literary works for adult audiences, a truly niche production in the panorama of book publishing. We see illustrating a novel as making a film. Each project is a unique and unrepeatable journey. When we set out into a new literary world, we must imagine its characters, environments, costumes, sets, lights, color, feelings, emotions, and passions. In all our work, we draw on not only our knowledge of fine art but our training in graphic design, merging the two.”

 

 

 

LIMITED SIGNED EDITION GALLERY

2022 The Great Gatsby, Beehive Books 

50c03143a8d22527caf8b296d1c96e9145db3c05balbusso_great_gatsby_05.jpegbalbusso_great_gatsby_04.jpegbalbusso_great_gatsby_02.jpegbalbusso_great_gatsby_01.jpeg

THE FOLIO SOCIETY EDITION GALLERY

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Twelth Night by William Shakespeare, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades and other stories by Alexander Pushkin, First Love by Ivan Turgenev, The Song of Roland.

balbusso_great_gatsby_cover.jpegbalbussotwins-09-roland.jpeg2e04656761d858ee5d18708aa06735f7c41e85384b71291fe43692c649fe448a483608849f5f317889bd8d582c0fa25aefb0fa9c7be3b10ffca5990c00c362d7558310daf1ae2d411851234ec2ce5b44807313ac6d45710ac1be824ea1e82b96aedcf8b9balbussotwins-08-first-love.jpeg05c1c44d2127050bdce83d7adcbb5cfeffb0db88a0dcb1bfc576ae65af84bd692fcca93b705096daa1731ebede338116da71e0b6b30b01afbcaf114c150a247a9faca7919521a33dd660859092c2f66bbalbussotwins-07-queen-spades.jpegb9a868aa60ce288ce946f20c42cca60d5c676d44f815db2f332e075fdfad4f81eeeb783fa8477a24balbussotwins-75-pride-prejudice3.jpeg90a66b045781e90cb5f223e0543bfd0ee8d820ba5896e61bed86dabc636933da46d8f14a67252cc8balbussotwins-04-pride-prejudice.jpeg1688e4fba9a90fb15926edb9f0f58750c5d54847f474540138eac5c5fc0d67cd88f6be3db18782f32019balbusso_twins_dream.jpeg5dc9db3a41ca50a04394593e3a40536223d63ea94fc494f25708ecd257c2e45ce1f99c90fd001d4a9c195c5511a5346fea8772c05721d7a4cc60bc3bbalbusso_twins_cina_eugene_onegin_cover.jpegbalbusso_twins_eugene_onegin_cover.jpegbalbussotwins-12-handmaids-tale-wall.jpegbalbussotwins-handmaids-tale-brides%20copia%202.jpegbalbussotwins-14-handmaids-tale-screen.jpegbalbussotwins-13-handmaids-tale-city.jpeg9a2cb83e22156d0490a9c2e3d6e04ab51a3cc58ebalbusso_handmaids_cover_72.jpeg2018balbusso_twins_green_vase.jpeg2018_balbusso_train_tt.jpeg2018balbussotwins_atlas_plane.jpeganna_elena_balbusso_atlas_shrugged_1a.jpegbalbusso_twins_atlas_new_york.jpegbalbusso_twins_atlas_shrugged_cover_1.jpegbalbusso_twins_atlas_shrugged_cover_2.jpeg

CLASSIC LITERATURE MASTERPIECES

Some titles: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Power and Ambition in Shakespeare and The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Beowulf, Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant, The portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The age of Innocence by E. Wharton.  You can find a complete list of classic illustrated novels in our bibliography or in the illustrated books section.

balbusso_twins_atlas_shrugged_cover_3.jpegf24f574f676199e8a340eda8790995384879600b.jpeg15f3cdd3e817e3c6f083fe7eb3f820ad5d4e4e8e.jpegbalbusso_twins_classic_literature.011.jpeg16ef8fd1e82393fb90ced474c4c8815bd66f16073ea3f57cd765e9eaa1290a926ac7940b56e8e132.jpega817b3f210d380845638f34c69bb09039fcf3d78.jpegbalbusso_twins_classic_literature_2.011.jpeg15cde855efe30a34463c0d9d46e0c12fcae58d49.jpeg50931f9ab1e7b8d59c693ee33d7be96100f24496.jpeg9dbcb21c78f4071518fdd2eba258af2bbe8ccad2.jpegcab239a049cb7eb63d7b57c4efe50887d795520c.jpegbalbussotwins-66-canterbury-tales-fairy.jpeg0fe04b86ddcfe2690d3d2eeddef8b920ea16df626bbcb6b38ec45d28e7c2a1ad704318818e2b11164bc5e083dd378fc9abec7c2bf666bab41ac87f29c27d9f69f2115e68cbe97d49ac2ae85df3969cebbccaae41b72891bcc82ae6d1d6f30f160c962b0992dab45e5060024de4ba542bf4b8f78882f110acopere_mostra_soi.004.jpegf2c7e06e3ac8186883e71ee521e3ae65078659278a07033525bf72e78f2cd668862250e9089a79fe.jpeg4ad77dc64ae13a948265747fd8453e0458710750.jpeg22e165c5d3f8d92fd5395ef4cf07f7b8501a6150.jpegce34187421468235d29d23770ea11baf27c90745.jpeg

OPERA POSTER, COVER, MAGAZINE….

The New Yorker, Tor Books, Poster for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, an opera on film by composer Gordon Getty Rork Music

db604d26618f727626131acecb54e6c50e14112b.jpegbalbusso_twins_mr_chips.jpegbalbusso_boccaccio.new_yorker.jpeg2022balbusso_twins_casanova_.jpeg
CONTACT US

 

New project proposal: please write via email to our Shannon Team everything we should know about a project, including the timeline, budget, style, number of images, subject, objectives, and goals. Our team will contact you and provide you with all the information quickly. Many Thanks for your help! 

Balbusso Twins

 

info@balbussotwins.com

 

 

 

Shannon Associates 

 

info@shannonassociates.com


twitter
facebook
instagram
linkedin
youtube

©2000-2025 Anna and Elena Balbusso. All rights reserved.
All ©Balbusso twins images and content are copyrighted. No  Machine Learning, AI. You may not use our ©images, our name (as authors), and content of this website (including any caption information, keywords or other metadata associated with content) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes.The artworks above cannot be used for commercial purposes by any third parties without explicit permission from the copyright holder ©Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins. Violation of this right means an infringement of copyright law and is indictable.