interwar-italy,interwar-prints

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 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.

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.