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Fior di male
The Italian diva film at full voltage, one year into the war.
What
An Italian film poster of 1915 for Carmine Gallone's Fior di male, designed by Aleandro Terzi and lithographed by Enrico Guazzoni.
Why
The diva film was Italy's dominant genre in the mid-1910s — melodramas built entirely around a single magnetic actress, staged with an intensity that shaped European screen acting for a decade. Guazzoni, who lithographed this sheet, was himself one of the great directors of the Italian historical epic.
Notice
The Art Nouveau lettering is doing as much work as the figure; the title is drawn, not set, and the two are designed as one object.
“An entire national cinema built on the face of one performer.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Fior di male (1915), dir. Carmine Gallone
- Country / studio
- Italy
- Designer
- Aleandro Terzi
- Printer / stone
- Enrico Guazzoni
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian film affissione, 1915
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.1×) of the surviving archival scan (original 570×800px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
From The World Screen
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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