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The elegant fold-out brochure titled “XVII Olympic Games in Rome,” commissioned by Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and produced in 1960 by the Sigla lithography studio in Genoa, stands as one of the finest examples of visual communication related to the Olympic Games. The work, designed by Heinrich C. Berann, takes the form of a striking bird’s-eye view map, successfully combining topographical precision with extraordinary pictorial quality. The illustration, starting from a Rome rich in monumental…
- Dimension: 42 x 50,5 cm
- Place of publication: Genoa
- Year: 1960
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The World as Satire and Vision: “Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu” (1924) The Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu (New Caricatured Bird’s-Eye View Map of the World), published in 1924 (Taishō 13), represents one of the most significant and fascinating pinnacles of Japanese pictorial and satirical cartography in the early postwar period. This work is part of the editorial and cultural tradition known as Manga Chizu (comic/caricature maps), which flourished in Japan between the end of the Meiji…
- Dimension: 73 x 105 cm
- Place of publication: Tokyo
- Year: 1924
