And now a selection of extraordinary works, on cardboard often stamped on the back L'artistica, a historic fine arts shop in Via del Babuino in Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. A very rare repertoire of plates representing a visual experiment and contamination that lasted a few years, from the late 1950s to 1965, almost exclusively designed for the French market, for magazines such as Star Cine Cosmos and Le film du coer. They were selected and created by a brilliant artist and editor like Franco Bozzesi, who then also involved authors like Ermanno Iaia and Franco Fiorenzi in his workshop. Collage, fine photographic film paper cut out and shaped and retouched on top with tempera paint and further shading applied on sturdy cardboard boards. Not exactly cineromanzo, but an innovative form in terms of depth, perspective, and inventions that brings the cinema of those years almost back to one big melò.
In this case it is the series dedicated to Ivanohe/The Teutonic Knight from Richard Thorpe's 1952 film