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Invidia
Envy, one panel of a seven-part serial that gave each deadly sin its own feature film.
What
Carlo Nicco's 1919 locandina for Invidia, an instalment of I sette peccati capitali — a serial in which each of the seven deadly sins received its own picture, all headlined by the same diva.
Why
The Italian diva film ran on allegory and gesture rather than plot, and this campaign is its purest expression: an entire production slate organised around a medieval moral scheme.
Notice
Nicco keeps the palette narrow and lets the figure carry the whole sheet — no scene, no incident, only a personification.
“A sin cast as a woman, and a woman cast as a season's worth of cinema.”
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
- Invidia (1919), dir. Alfredo De Antoni
- Country / studio
- Italy
- Designer
- Carlo Nicco
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian lithographed locandina, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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.
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