ANIC Lubricating Oil Advertising Sheet Year XX
Advertising sheet for A.N.I.C. lubricating oil, signed «C. Cremonesi XX». Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. One colour, one idea:
Interwar Italy 1922–44
Works, objects and printed matter from Italy between 1922 and 1944, documented from private archives.
«Il Pignone»: a 1941 Advertising Poster by Corrado Mancioli
An engineer-turned-poster-artist advertises Florence’s oldest engineering house, branded under its pre-1954 name — the window the 1941 date falls neatly inside.
Microtecnica Torino Gyrocompass Advertising Poster
A gyrocompass poster for a real wartime Turin precision-instrument maker. We could not confirm the signature, so we publish it without an artist name rather than guess.
Bilance San Giorgio Genova-Sestri Advertising Poster
A Saint-George knight sells precision scales for a real Genoa engineering firm. The 1927 date and the Santambrogio attribution are the collector’s record, not facts we could independently confirm.
Arnaldo Carpanetti’s Incipit Novus Ordo (1929)
A prize-winning, explicitly propagandistic painting from the 1930 Venice Biennale, today recorded as dispersed or destroyed. We document it as period record, not celebration.
«Roma mussoliniana»: a 1933 Lithograph by Giulio Cisari
Trucks, a crane and the Colosseum: Cisari prints the tail end of the Via dell’Impero works that reshaped Rome around the amphitheatre in 1932-33.
A Dam Under Construction: Lithograph by Giulio Cisari
A construction-site print titled after the Santa Chiara dam in Sardinia — except the dam was finished nine years before the date on the print. We publish the discrepancy along with the image.
Portrait of Umberto di Savoia by Fausto Giorno (1933)
A synthetic Art Deco profile portrait of Crown Prince Umberto, signed Fausto Giorno — the pen name of the Futurist Tiburzio Notte, reconstructed by scholarship only in 2021.
Micron IX: a Turin cinema projector on a magazine page
Microtecnica Torino, Micron IX — magazine advertisement. Scan from a period original, Stefano Vigolo collection. A cinema projector photographed on