Bellezze d'Italia, trittico di visioni pittoresche depicts and highlights the Italian landscapes of a region enjoying burgeoning tourism. The new possibilities offered by the cinema, with respect to photography, are exploited: the film contains many pans, a camera movement particularly suited for the representation of landscapes. We note as well the usage of masks, which bestow on the images picture-postcard aesthetics.

The picturesque character of these images ensues from the places shown to us: in addition to life in coastal or mountain villages and sunsets, the film reveals to us the Monte Rosa mountain chain, the second highest massive of the Alps after Monte Bianco. We equally catch sight of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoia, constructed in the medieval style for Queen Margherita di Savoia (1851-1926), between 1899 and 1904.

The origin of this Italian documentary remains hypothetical: the Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin, which houses it, supposes that three visions formed three independent films, shot in 1911 by Piero Marelli (1881-1932) for the company Pasquali. This production company, founded in 1908 by Ernesto Maria Pasquali (1883-1919), apparently sold these prints to Tiziano Film, founded in 1920, which reunited them into a single film, which it distributed. But on the title cards of the second and third visions of the film, the name Pasquali still remains.

In 1994 the Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin acquired a collection of landscape documentaries, including a nitrate print of Le Bellezze d'Italia, trittico di visioni pittoresche. The print has been restored by Museo Nazionale del Cinema at Haghefilm Laboratory in Amsterdam; the so-called Desmet technique enabled the film to recover its sublime colours, which were originally produced by plunging the film into a colouring bath to dye the images.

The original music for this film was composed by Pierre Oberkampf in 2011 in the context of the call for proposals launched in partnership with the Sacem (Société des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs de musique – Society of authors, composers and music editors).