Fior di male
Aleandro Terzi, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 11% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAn Italian film poster of 1915 for Carmine Gallone's Fior di male, designed by Aleandro Terzi and lithographed by Enrico Guazzoni. 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. 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.
- Maker
- Aleandro Terzi
- Date
- 1915
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00837
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 67 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,211 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 58, lights 203 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.93
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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