Title: Donatello among the Blackshirts : history and modernity in the visual culture of Fascist Italy /
Authors: Lazzaro, Claudia, 1947-; Crum, Roger J.
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Donatello, Influence.; Donatello,; Art and state Italy History; Fascism and art Italy.; Art and history Italy.; Art, Italian
Contents: Forging a visible Fascist nation : strategies for fusing past and present / Claudia Lazzaro -- To make history present / Claudio Fogu -- Augustus, Mussolini, and the parallel imagery of empire / Ann Thomas Wilkins -- "Il primo pilota" : Mussolini, Fascist aeronautical symbolism, and imperial Rome / Gerald Silk -- Fascism triumphans : on the architectural translation of Rome / Jobst Welge -- Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- Towers and tourists : the cinematic city of San Gimignano / D. Medina Lasansky -- Shaping the Fascist "new man" : Donatello's St. George and Mussolini's appropriated Renaissance of the Italian nation / Roger J. Crum -- Mussolini, mothers, and maiolica / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- Politicizing a national garden tradition : the Italianness of the Italian garden / Claudia Lazzaro -- Leonardo's smile / Emily Braun -- Celebrating the nation's poets : Petrarch, Leopardi, and the appropriation of cultural symbols in Fascist Italy / Benjamin George Martin -- The return of the repressed : tradition as myth in futurist Fascism / Christine Poggi -- Flash memories (Sironi on exhibit), appendix: Mario Sironi, "The manifesto of muralism" / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Epilogue: Mussolini's body as fotografia infamante / Roger J. Crum and Claudia Lazzaro.