Impressive? Yes. Handsome men, great art? No.
The text that accompanies this layout from the March 1984 Mandate explains the location of these sculptures (and many others like them) in the Foro Italico in Rome. The photograph at bottom, which was not part of the Mandate feature, shows a wider context of the sculptures at the sports complex where they were placed in the 1930s, during Mussolini’s rise to power.
Fascists everywhere take note: Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were shot by Italian patriots on April 28, 1945 — two days before Hitler’s suicide in Berlin — and their mutilated bodies were hung upside down at a service station.
So ended his campaign to Make Italy Great Again.