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Year: 1937.

Artist: Basilio Cascella.

Additional information: Painting shows Mussolini shirtless while skiing on Monte Terminillo. Basilio Cascella, an Italian artist, along with his son Michele, produced a number of Mussolini-themed public artworks in the 1930s. These included grand mosaics for Milan and Messina train stations, an agricultural series showing Mussolini at work in the fields for the Ministry of Agriculture, paintings for various Government Palaces, and more. Cascella was an enthusiastic and active fascist, having joined the party in the early 1920s and served in the Italian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies. Besides this painting, Mussolini’s shirtless skiing trip featured in a number of newspapers and postcards in 1937.