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26163.
design Christ on the Cross, covering his downcast eyes with his freed and torn right hand. In the background the head and
shoulders of a massive bestial figure, in pickelhaube, looms above the ruins of a church. The monster holds a huge spiked and bloodstained
pestle marked "ESENTE DA SCOMVNICA". Dead figures lie below the pestle and a crowd of anguished believers, at the foot of the cross,
implore their Saviour's help (design within inset, 300 mm high, 322 mm wide)
named "G. Palanti" (signature inferred)
text: "Venerdi Santo!" (above inset) & "Comitato d'azione tra mutilati invalidi e feriti di guerra Propaganda Artistica - Corso Vitt.
Eman.8 - Milano" (two lines of script below inset)
whole MODEL | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | IT.O & Comitato d'azione tra mutilati invalidi e feriti di guerra propaganda Italian Home Front & Italian anti-German Propaganda & (after) 26/8/1916 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Palanti, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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