A number of famous Italian artists have vied with one another in immortalizing the celebrated star, that thunderbolt of beauty, Gina Lollobrigida.

The sitting was unique in its kind and in its aim, for it brought together twenty-seven artists from the summits of Italian art, and Italy's first beauty... As for the reason that stirred the artists and moved them to this attempt, it was Lollo's return from a world tour, during which she made great publicity for Italy and for Italian art; and the artists wished to express their feeling to her — and there is no stronger means of expressing an artist's feeling than this... And what is worthier of being immortalized on the canvases of Italian art than this bewitching face and this devastating figure?...

Lollo in an artistic "pose"

Lollo without "retouching" — "as Barberi saw her"

The full-bosomed Lollo, by "Marcello Dudovich"