An advertising poster promoting Italia in Amalfi, created by Italian painter, illustrator and graphic designer Mario Borgoni. The work exemplifies early 20th-century Italian commercial art and promotional design.
Ritmi di Stazione is a 1933 short film by Italian director Corrado d’Errico, part of his early experimental work in cinema.
Carlo Carrà’s 1934 painting depicts the arrest of Cesare Battisti, the Italian socialist politician and journalist executed during the First World War.
Augusto Colombo’s 1940 painting depicts the martyrdom of Cesare Battisti, an Italian nationalist executed during World War I. The work exemplifies Colombo’s engagement with historical and social subjects during the interwar period.
Renato Guttuso’s 1942 painting depicts a woman at a window. The work exemplifies the Italian artist’s engagement with figuration and social observation.
A still life painting by Italian modernist Mario Mafai, created in 1942 during the turbulent years of World War II. The work exemplifies the melancholic sensibility characteristic of the Scuola Romana movement.
Costante uomo is a sculpture created by Italian artist Fausto Melotti in 1936. Melotti was a versatile sculptor, ceramicist, poet and theorist active across the twentieth century.
An advertising poster created in 1936 to promote Gardone Riviera, the lakeside town on Lake Garda’s western shore in Lombardy.
Giorgio Morandi’s still life from 1929 exemplifies the Italian painter’s refined approach to domestic objects rendered in restrained tonalities.
