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Fascist spoils: gifts to Mussolini
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 407-413
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Author:
Versari, Maria Elena (Versari, Maria Elena)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Mussolini, Benito
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
subjects:
Fascism / Politics / Propaganda / Collections, Private / Art objects / Stolen works of art / World War (1939-1945) / Italian
subjects:
Inventories / Lost works / Gifts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Antonietta (Sophia Loren) and Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni) in a scene from Una Giornata Particolare, by Ettore Scola. 1977.
Attributed works:
37. Embroidered portrait of Mussolini, by Maria Puccini Pucci (Archivio di Stato, Forlì)
Attributed works:
38. Photographic portrait of Mussolini, by Amerigo Petitti, autographed and dated by Mussolini, 18th May 1931 (Courtesy MyMilitaria.it)
Western art unattributed:
31. The Rocca delle Caminate. c.1927 (Biblioteca Comunale di Forlì, Raccolte Piancastelli)
Western art unattributed:
32. A British soldier inspects a painting in the Rocca delle Caminate. About November 1944 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
33. The room of Fascist memorabilia in the Rocca delle Caminate. c.1933-40. (Biblioteca Comunale di Forlì, Archivio Fotografico)
Western art unattributed:
34. Interior of the Casa d'Arte Tato in Bologna; on the wall the painting The March on Rome, by Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni). c.1924. Photograph (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
Western art unattributed:
35. Envelope of the letter accompanying Chiang Kai-shek's gift of the Yuan Shikai vases to Mussolini (Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome)
Western art unattributed:
36. 'Are you crying out for patriotism with your arms crossed? You scoundrel!', poster in the album donated to Mussolini by the Istituto di Propaganda Italiana, c.1925 (Archivio di Stato, Forlì)