Italy
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Italian painting, 1937
Text: NA. 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…
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Italian illustration, 1935
Text: NA. Year: 3 March 1935. Publisher: La Domenica del Corriere. Artist: Achille Beltrame. Additional information: Shows Mussolini swinging a pickaxe against the Roman skyline. Published on the cover of La Domenica del Corriere with the text: ‘The Duce strikes the first blow of the pickaxe to free the area destined for the Mole Littoria,…
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Roman Communists! Khrushchev has fallen (Italian poster, 1964)
Text: Roman Communists! Khrushchev has fallen, Stalin is vindicated – Long live the glorious comrade Stalin! Year: 1964. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Poster displayed in Rome, 1964, celebrating Khrushchev’s downfall. The poster is signed ‘I compagni cinesi’, or ‘The Chinese Comrades’. Khrushchev was removed from power during a plot arranged by his successor…
