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Gaetano Albanese - Rosamund and Alboin

Artist: Gaetano Albanese (All)

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Gaetano Albanese - Rosamund and Alboin Comic Art

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One of the promotional posters for the Italian movie "Rosmunda e Alboino" (1961)

Artwork Details

Title:	Gaetano Albanese - Rosamund and Alboin
Artist:	Gaetano Albanese (All)
Media Type:	Ink Wash
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	3,530
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	12/6/2015
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Description

I wasn't familiar with this artist, who has worked as an illustrator for many magazines and books published in Italy between the '50s and '80s, but I instantly liked this piece and, despite it isn't properly comic art (although Albanese has drew even romance comics in his career), I couldn't help but add it to my collection.

And, for all those who are interested in the story behind this illustration, Rosamund was daughter of Cunimund, king of the Gepids, and wife of Alboin, king of the Lombards.
The Gepids fought wars against the Lombards since 546, firstly within the context of a Lombardic-Byzantine alliance, and later against the Lombards and the Turkic Avar nomads. In 567, the Gepid kingdom was completely subdued by a mixture of Lombard and Avar forces. King Cunimund was decapitated and Rosamund, along with many other Gepids, was taken as a prisoner of the Lombards. However, in an attempt to secure a male heir and following the death of his first wife Clotsuinda, king Alboin took Rosamund as his wife. Alboin was noted for his cruelty towards her: his most famous act of cruelty (but here history is mixed with legend) was reported by Paulus Diaconus, who states that, at a royal banquet in Verona, Alboin forced Rosamund to drink from the skull of her father, inviting her "to drink merrily with her father". But a fierce revenge wasn't long in coming...

Of course such an intriguing story has inspired many illustrations and paintings, novels, dramas, comics and even a movie released in Italy in 1961, starring the lovely Eleonora Rossi Drago, as Rosamund, and Jack Palance, as Alboin!

(pen, ink and washed ink on artboard, roughly 10"x 7" - signed)

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Last Login:	January 2026
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David K
Member Since 2008

Posted on 12/6/2015

It's a wonderful piece!!

Shelton Bryant
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/7/2015

Kewl Mid Century Style!!!Luv the Tonal Work!!!

Dadako Dadako
Member Since 2010

Posted on 12/8/2015

Incredible ink wash painting.. We can definitely say that it's a piece of history of italian illustration!

Fabio C.
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/9/2015

the craftsmanship is remarkable, great piece!

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