The Propaganda Archive

A project by Propagandopolis to create the internet’s largest archive of propaganda posters, postcards, pamphlets, stamps and other ephemera.

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Shirtless

  • 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…

    Italian painting, 1937