After passing his Art School diploma, 

Fabrizio Notarpietro studied a supplementary course in 1985 in order to enrol at the Accademia delle Belle Arti In Turin. In 1990 he got a degree as a set designer

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His love of art in all forms, from movies and photography to the history of art inspired him to present important papers about Rene Magritte; his final thesis was about surrealism and Magritte.