The Scaliger keep rises to the right of the big red MALCESINE under the same cream sky, while the waterfront below glows terracotta and a lone white sailboat drifts in on water streaked sunset-orange. An original vintage-style illustration of Malcesine on Lake Garda, supplied in a black wood frame and ready to hang the day it arrives. It is the kind of gift that lands for anyone who has ferried across from Limone or taken the cable car up Monte Baldo.
The design is drawn flat — an eye-level view from out on the water, the crenellated keep of the Scaliger Castle rising top-right above lower battlemented walls, dark cypresses and a pale rocky promontory, with salmon, ochre and cream houses stepping down to a small quay with umbrellas and mooring posts. A lone sailboat sits lower-left on rippling blue water streaked with orange reflections, and layered mountains fade back into a golden sky of soft cumulus. MALCESINE runs across the top left in deep red, with LAGO DI GARDA set beneath it in navy between two short orange rules and VENETO • ITALIA below that, and the castle keep standing just to the right of the title under the same cream sky, all worked in golden orange, terracotta, cream, navy and deep lake blue. It is printed on 189 g/m² heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil thick — an uncoated stock that keeps the flat colour edges crisp without a hint of glare — and arrives framed in slim black ayous wood behind an acrylite front protector, with the hanging hardware already fitted.
- Sizes: 14″ × 14″, 16″ × 16″ and 18"x 18" portrait, supplied framed in black
- Paper: 189 g/m2 heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) thick, milled in Japan — uncoated, so no glare
- Frame: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) black ayous wood from renewable forests
- Front: acrylite protector in place of glass — lighter, and it does not shatter in transit
- Hanging hardware included — arrives ready to hang, no assembly
Size chart
| Framed size | Art panel | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 14" × 14" framed | 14 × 14 in | desk nooks, hallways, gallery walls, small spaces, gifting |
| 16" × 16" framed | 16 × 16 in (fills the frame) | above a sofa, a bed head or a console |
| 18" × 18" framed | 18 × 18 in | above a sofa, bed, or console, living rooms, statement walls |
The square illustration is centred behind the acrylite front with an even paper margin above and below, so the frame reads clean without a mat. Framed pieces ship flat and boxed, and travel separately from any rolled posters in the same order.
Quick answers
Does it come framed, and in what sizes?
Yes — 14″ × 14″, 16″ × 16″, or 18″ × 18″ in portrait in a black ayous wood frame, 0.75″ (1.9 cm) thick, with an acrylite front protector and the hanging hardware already fitted. It arrives ready to hang.
Which size should I choose?
Is this a reprint of a vintage original?
No. It is an original illustration drawn in the mid-century travel-poster tradition — flat colour, clean edges, bold lettering — and a new composition made for RaZits. It is not a scan of a historic print.
What is the tower rising above the town?
It is the keep of the Castello Scaligero, the medieval castle that gives Malcesine its skyline on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, Italy's largest lake. The castle takes its name from the Scaligeri, the della Scala family who ruled Verona in the 13th and 14th centuries, and Goethe famously stopped to sketch it in 1786 on his Italian journey.
Malcesine at golden hour — castle first, water second.
