The Liberation of Rome

Prints and Drawings

June 21, 1944

Pavel Sokolov-Skalya
(Born Strel’nia, 1899; died Moscow, 1961)
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
(Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia
Title: The Liberation of Rome
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Original 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: Now from Crimea, now from Rome – The beaten enemy retreats. With the noise of lies and a cloud of smoke He covers his every step. Who hasn’t heard the saying: “All roads will lead to Rome?” But we would like to now propose To replace it with another. The beast crawls to its lair. Now, too, there is just one way. All trails, all streets, All roads lead to Berlin!
Dimensions: 162.8 × 126 cm (64 1/8 × 49 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.182

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