Flag Of Italy Orgoglio Italiano
by Cecely Bloom
Title
Flag Of Italy Orgoglio Italiano
Artist
Cecely Bloom
Medium
Drawing - Original Artwork
Description
FLAG OF ITALY ORGOGLIO ITALIANO
by artist Cecely Bloom.
The flag of Italy often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side. Its current form has been in use since 18 June 1946 and was formally adopted on 1 January 1948.
The Italian national colours appeared for the first time in Genoa on a tricolour cockade on 21 August 1789, anticipating by seven years the first green, white and red Italian military war flag, which was adopted by the Lombard Legion on 11 October 1796. The colours chosen by the Cispadane Republic were red and white, which were the colours of the flag of recently conquered Milan, and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese civic guard.
After the date of 7 January 1797 the popular consideration for the Italian flag grew steadily, until it became one of the most important symbols of the Risorgimento, which culminated on 17 March 1861 with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, of which the tricolour rose to national flag. Since its adoption, the tricolour has become one of most recognizable and defining features of united Italian statehood in the following two centuries of history of Italy.
Italian patriots later identified the three colours with the Mediterranean maquis (Green), the snow-capped Alps (White), and the Risorgimento (Red). A philosophic and Catholic interpretation associates the tricolour with the theological virtues: Hope (Green), Faith (White), and Love (Red).
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