Pierre Peyrolle was born in 1945 under the ribbed vaults of Port-Royal.

His early voracity for the more demanding culture will quickly drive him with an insatiable curiosity towards artistic creation.

Musical formation generating a limitless taste for opera and that most musical of architecture: the baroque

Progressive abandonment of the traditional curriculum for an assiduous immersion in the poetry and literature of 17th and 18th century.

Vicarious fascination with Jansenism, all the spiritual rebellions and works hinting of mysticism.

Fortuitous revelation by his piano teacher of the painting of Salvador Dali, which will engender an absolute attraction to pleasure and the theatrical and the rebuttal of the dry speculation of muddled art.

After a roving adolescence, first voyages in Italy, lives in Ravenna then meanders in Tuscany.
The juxtaposition of the Apollonian and Dionysian in Italy will become the disordered palanquin of an irreversible affinity for the baroque and of a secret taste for the Sienna primitives and exuberant colour.