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Book Review
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1211-1212
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Reviewer:
Pieri, Giuliana (Pieri, Giuliana)
Subjects
subjects:
Politics / Portraiture / Fascism / Iconography / Mussolini, Benito / Hitler, Adolf / Photography / Film (cinema)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power Edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone. 368 pp. incl. 200 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, Abingdon, 2020), £120. ISBN 978–1–138–05423–3. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Benito Mussolini promoting the ‘Battle for Grain’ in Aprilia. 1938. Postcard.
Article
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)
Exhibition Review
Art and Mussolini. London
12/2010 | 1293 | 152
Pages: 819-820
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Reviewer:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949
places:
Estorick Collection, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
print:
Mussolini, Benito
print:
Italian art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Fascism
subjects:
Mussolini, Benito
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Against Mus­solini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator | institution: Estorick Collection
Illustrations
Attributed works:
47. Dux series – Mussolini, by Mino Maccari. 1943. Canvas, 41 by 50.4 cm. (Private collection; exh. Estorick Collection, London)
Attributed works:
48. Execution, by Merlyn Evans. 1945. Canvas, 82.2 by 119 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London; exh. Estorick Collection, London).
Attributed works:
49. Fantasia no.7 – Interrogation – Via Tasso, by Mario Mafai. 1940–43. Oil on board, 111 by 150 cm. (Private collection; exh. Estorick Collection, London).