Renato Bertelli

Renato Bertelli (1900 in Lastra a Signa – 1974 in Florence) was an Italian Futurist artist.

His most, and perhaps only, noted work is the 1933 ceramic bust of Benito Mussolini in the aeroceramica style, Profilo continuo del Duce (also cited as Profilo contino del Duce). The title is sometimes given as "Head of Mussolini"[1] but is better known as "Head of Mussolini (Continuous Profile)",[2] "Continuous profile of Mussolini",[3] or "Continuous Profile – Head of Mussolini".[4]

The sculpture is the locus of the front half of a silhouette of Mussolini's distinctive profile rotated on a vertical axis through 360 degrees - a reference to Mussolini looking in all directions at once.[5]

The sculpture was later mass produced in several versions, in bronzed terracotta,[3] wood, and aluminium.[6] Mussolini, with his taste for self-commemoration, approved it as an official portrait.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Head of Mussolini". University of Southern California. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  2. ^ Staff writer (11 February 2005). "Italy in pictures". The St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b c "Sculpture, Profilo contino del Duce (Continuous profile of Mussolini), 1933". Florida International University. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  4. ^ a b "A Secret History of Clay". Tate Liverpool. 28 May 2004. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  5. ^ "Profilo Continuo (Testa di Mussolini) [Continuous Profile (Head of Mussolini)]". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved July 22, 2025.
  6. ^ "Lot 49 Renato Bertelli. 'Continuous profile of Mussolini' 1933". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 3 March 2010.

Marco Moretti, Renato Bertelli, monografia critica, Masso delle Fate Edizioni, Signa, 2007, pp. 160.

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