ILLUSTRATIONS

The many literary works illustrated by Fiume included: The Rape of the Bucket by Alessandro Tassoni, 1936, The Golovliev Family by Saltykov-Šćedrin, 1946, Bernadette by Franz Werfel, 1946, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1947, Yet Hercules Wins by Salvatore Fiume, 1956, Quo vadis? by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1959, Poems by Essenin, 1968, The Treasure of the Palagonia by Salvatore Fiume, 1983, The Travels of Marco Polo, 1983, Cleopatra by Enzo Gualazzi, 1992, and many texts on religious subjects like Apochrypha, 1988, and The Women in the Bible, 1995. In some illustrations like those for Quo Vadis?, Fiume would use a very flexible shaving blade to subtract layers of colour o varying thinness. This allowed him to obtain a variety of effects like figures showing through transparent sheets, or sinewy bodies of wrestlers, as well as huge spaces overcrowded with people within a table not larger than 10 x17 centimetres.