Artefact Type:

painting

Description:

Futurist-style polyptych conceived by Dottori as a pyramid, representing the Fascist revolution. The panels constituting the 'base' of the pyramid illustrate Fascist universal values, the ones in the middle portray Fascist achievements, and the top panel is a portrait of Mussolini.

Current Location:

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

Technique(s):

Tempera on panel

Size:

cm 151 x 203 each horizontal panel, 203 x 151 the vertical panel

Notes:

Exhibited at 2nd Rome Quadrennial, 1935. In that occasion, Marinetti suggested Mussolini should buy it for the National Fascist Party.

Artist(s):

Gerardo Dottori

Creation Start Date :

1934

Theme(s) :

Second Futurism

Tag(s) :

Urbanism
Corporativism
State art
Totalitarian art
Anti-liberalism
New Man
Collectivity
Sacralization
Totalitarian realism
Muralism
Statalization
Totalitarian consent
Aesthetic system or apparatus