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Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 71,5; Larghezza: 57,5

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The painting dramatically depicts the well-known episode of the execution of the brothers Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, who were executed by firing squad in Cosenza on 25 July 1844, after a failed attempt to raise the Calabrian populations against the reign of Ferdinand II with a view to Italian national unification. In the lower part of the painting, the two brothers lie on the ground enveloped in a cloud of dust, while on the left, the firing squad has already raised its rifles. On the right, some comrades of the Brotherhood of Good Death are already ready for their task, which was to take care of the bodies of those condemned to death.