Duilio Cambellotti (1876–1960) was an Italian applied artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and designer who played a role in the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, and whose influence was social and political as well as aesthetic and artistic. He is recognized for his versatility across a spectrum of visual and design disciplines, and for his fidelity to agrarian themes.
Posters designed by Duilio Cambellotti in the early 20th century
Throughout his career, Cambellotti was aware of the social significance of decoration and, influenced by William Morris, he became a leading figure among artists who were intellectually and aesthetically trying maintain a connection with the organic immediacy of style found in traditional handmade objects and in traditional pictorial coherence, as opposed to the slick surfaces and machine-like images inspired by the Industrial Era.
Here below is a set of amazing posters designed by Duilio Cambellotti in the early 20th century.
Fine di Secolo, Acqua Progressiva Insuperabile, circa 1900
“The Suppressed Contrade”, 1907
“Pons Sublicius”, 1910-11
Rome 1911, Exposition Internationale, 1911
“Storia di Aladino e della lampada magica” from The Arabian Nights, circa 1912
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