Cat. № POSTER-191 · Archive reference image
Lost Cinema № 191
Scoperta: Il Pompiere Ignoto
Available · one owner onlyArchive note
Exhibition poster for a rediscovered 1885 painting by Adolfo Rossi depicting an unknown fireman amid the ruins of Pompeii, holding a artifact aloft against apocalyptic flames. The work was lost to institutional archives for nearly 140 years before resurfaces in a 2024 retrospective at Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. Collectors of Italian academic painting, lost historical documentation, and 19th-century romanticism will recognize this as evidence of a cultural moment—the intersection of industrial heroism, archaeological obsession, and nationalist fervor—that cinema and literature almost immortalized but never quite did.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
1536 × 2752 px · 4.2 MP · portrait
- Section
- Lost Cinema
- Style
- Academic oil painting, exhibition typography
- Mood
- heroic, elegiac, conspiratorial
- Palette
- burnt orange, charcoal, cream, gold
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