«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.
Interwar Italy 1922–44
Works, objects and printed matter from Italy between 1922 and 1944, documented from private archives.
Bussole Giroscopiche: a Microtecnica Torino 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 Automatiche San Giorgio: an Advertising Poster from Genova-Sestri
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.
«Incipit Novus Ordo» (1929): the Lost Painting by Arnaldo Carpanetti
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: a Lithograph Attributed to Giulio Cisari, and a Date That Doesn’t Fit
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, attributed to 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
Officine Galileo, «Strumenti astronomici»: a telescope on an advertising sheet
Officine Galileo, Strumenti astronomici — advertising sheet printed in blue. Scan from a period original, Stefano Vigolo collection. A telescope