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Description
‘Birth of Fascism’ (‘La nascita del Fascimo’)
Biography: Giovanni Battista Tedeschi
Bronze relief.
Weight 6,5 kg. Size 39 x 28 cm.
Depicted is the ‘March on Rome’ in October 1922, marking the Fascist Rise to Power. The central nude figure -surrounded by the crowds that participated in the 1922 March on Rome- is carrying the fascia, symbol of the movement. To the right and left are kneeling nude male figures, and in the upper corners are portraits of Mussolini and Antonio Locatelli (1895 – 1936), highly decorated Italian aviator and National Fascist Party legislator. Locatelli was, according to Mussolini, ‘one of the purest and most intrepid souls of fascism’.
Inscribed: ‘RIPR. VIET. Z & B’ (‘reproduction prohibited’).
Bronze relief, created in the 1920s.
The style of Tedeschi’s relief is very similar to his 1924 War Monument:
Giovanni Battista Tedeschi, ‘Mediolanum, alegory of the Soldiers Death’, 1924. Located in the village of Crevaltore. The inscription by the poet Giovanni Bertacchi reads: ‘S’ACCREBBE L’ITALIA/ NEL SACRIFICIO DEI FORTI’ (‘Italy grew by the sacrifice of the strong’).
| – condition | : II |
| – size/ type | : 39 x 28 cm/ relief, bronze. Weight 6,5 kg |
| – signed | : below: ‘B. Tedeschi’ |
| – misc. | : previously owned by an Italian Consul General (provenance on request) |
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