Attic Postcards Logo About Blog
<1/18> A. Noyer

padding image
Postcard front.

Postcard back.
Quo Vadis,Petrone's Death,Morte de Petronio,Mastroianni

Related: Artist Signed <22> Mastroianni <3>

Availability: Unavailable. Sold for $5.50 in Jul-2009.

Title: QUO VADIS, par MASTROIANNI. Mort de Petrone. Smierc Petroniusza. Morte di Petronio. Tod des Petronius. Muerte de Petronio. Petrone's death. Morte de Petronio.

Description: Vintage D. Mastroianni postcard depicting Petrone's death. From Mastroianni's Quo Vadis series. Quo Vadis, a book by Polish Nobel Prize winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, is a love story set in Nero's Roman. It was first published in 1895. D. Mastroianni was an Italian artist who produced pictures using a technique he pioneered called sculptochromie. This consisted of sculpting a scene and lighting it entirely for the camera, the sculpture usually being destroyed after its photograph was taken. He produced many hundreds of pictures for postcards using this technique.

Era: Circa 1910.

Producer: A. Noyer <1/18>
Producer text: Sculptochrome A. Noyer - Paris - Fabrication Francaise
Series: 16.

Status: Unused.
Condition: Very Good.

Attic Postcards ID: JU8184

Home | eBay Store | Delcampe Store | bidStart Store | eCrater Store | About