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Superbia
Pride in ermine — the third surviving panel of Italy's seven-sin cycle.
What
Carlo Nicco's 1919 locandina for Superbia, directed by Edoardo Bencivenga, from the same seven-part serial.
Why
Only a handful of the cycle's posters are known; together the Nicco sheets are close to the only surviving visual record of an ambitious production scheme that the collapse of the Italian industry in the early 1920s swept away.
Notice
The ermine — a heraldic marker of rank, deployed here as the costume of a sin rather than a station.
“Nobility rendered as a vice, on paper that outlasted the film.”
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
- Superbia (1919), dir. Edoardo Bencivenga
- Country / studio
- Italy
- Designer
- Carlo Nicco
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian lithographed locandina, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.9×) of the surviving archival scan (original 676×907px). 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.
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