Wow, great find, Alex. Thanks for submitting this. I've always wondered about Gaetano's personal relationship to Rand's novels and thinking.

He had a lot of negative things to say, but I really liked this quote:

"I love that kind of design—that heroic, idealized body and structure. I didn't want to do the books with a cover that was just the story in the books. I wanted them to be more symbolic. What I liked about The Fountainhead was the character Howard Roark, an architect who was inspired and had imagination—an idea, a vision. The people in my life that I have the most respect for are artists, musicians, film directors, writers—people with vision. To me, that's heroic. That's what I wanted the covers to convey. I started out with Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead; these guys are naked and statuesque, like Greek gods. I meant for them to be icons."

My pleasure. :) Yes, I had been wondering, too, and found this very informative.