La Lettura. 1912-1919

La Lettura N9. Settembre 1913

From 1912 to 1919, Achille Beltrame illustrated the monthly supplement to Corriere della Sera, the magazine La Lettura, for which he created 96 cover paintings. In his autobiography, published in the monthly, Achille Beltrame reports that during the war, he visited the trenches only once to witness the situation firsthand. Nevertheless, the artist depicted the setting, people, and objects on the magazine covers with documentary persuasiveness and a rigorous sense of realism.