Italy

  • Samurai Postcard

    Samurai Postcard

    Postcard commemorating successive Japanese victories in the Pacific. The Imperial Japanese Navy is personified here as a mighty samurai. The subsequent fall of British Malaya and Singapore to the Japanese was described as “the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history” by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and this poster aims to highlight the supremacy and solidarity of the fascist triumvirate as they continued to enjoy victory on all fronts throughout 1941 and 1942.

  • The Aviator and the Eagle

    The Aviator and the Eagle

    Italian sculpture dated to the Fascist era incorporating quintessential futurist and fascist themes. Depicts an aviator commandeering an eagle representing an aeroplane. Its symbolism and artistry merge seamlessly in an ode to humanity’s challenge against nature itself.

  • Alessandro Pavolini's Dagger

    Alessandro Pavolini’s Dagger

    Sleek silver plated dagger with its crossguard and blade forming a fasces, a widely used symbol in Fascism from which the ideology derives its name. Gifted to Alessandro Pavolini, secretary of the Republican Fascist Party who was noted for his uncompromising fanaticism that exceeded Mussolini’s. He is seen by historians as being one of the primary instigators of the Italian Civil War and one of the founders of the hardline Italian Social Republic.