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Dux con pietra miliare

Artefact Type:

sculpture

Description:

Iron portrait of Mussolini, and praised by him, with synthetic and rationalised features which lend it a particularly solemn, mythical and atemporal aura.

Material(s):

Stone and iron

Current Location:

Mart, Rovereto

Size:

cm 120 x 50 x 29, head: cm 33

Artist(s):

Ernesto Michahelles (known as 'Thayaht')

Creation Start Date :

1929

Theme(s) :

Second Futurism