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Lussuria
Lust, drawn as an allegory rather than a scene, for a serial that filmed the whole catechism of vice.
What
Carlo Nicco's 1919 locandina for Lussuria, another instalment of the I sette peccati capitali serial.
Why
Italian poster art of this moment answered to Symbolist painting more than to publicity. Nicco was working in the tradition of Klimt and the Viennese Secession, applied to a commercial sheet for a film that no longer survives complete.
Notice
The decorative field behind the figure — flattened, patterned, ornamental — is Secession vocabulary imported wholesale into Turin.
“The gallery wall and the street wall, briefly the same wall.”
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
- Lussuria (1919)
- 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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