Double Dux – the gaze and the glaze

MUSSOLINI’s son-in-law and foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, would have done well to heed the imagery of this black glazed terracotta head when another version of it came into his possession.

Like the all-seeing, two-faced Janus, Il Duce's eyes were everywhere. Here he went one better than t…

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