Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 1,023 articles · 152 heritage places · 713 events · 12 itineraries · 460 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
A painting by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo capturing the sensory chaos of bombardment. Created in 1926, it reflects the artist’s lifelong engagement with noise, violence, and modernist abstraction.
Oil painting by Italian modernist Osvaldo Licini created in 1928, preceding his transition to abstraction by two years.
Il grano is a painting by Italian artist Pietro Gaudenzi, created around 1940. The work reflects the artist’s long career as a figurative painter based in Genoa.
A self-portrait painted by Mario Mafai in 1928, the year his daughter Simona was born. Mafai was a founding figure of the Scuola Romana, the modern Roman school of painting.
A 1941 painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Migneco, executed during his affiliation with the Corrente group. The work is held in the Alberto Della Ragione Collection at the Galleria Novecento in Florence.
Felice Casorati’s 1942 painting depicts a girl reclining on a bed. The Italian painter was known for figure compositions distinguished by unusual perspective effects.
A painting by Dalmatian Italian Futurist Tullio Crali created in 1943, combining speed and aerial imagery characteristic of his practice.
Carlo Montani’s 1928 view of Torre Astura captures the medieval tower on the Lazio coast. The painting documents this historic structure through the artist’s trained eye.
Palazzo Criscuoli is an Art Deco palazzo in Barletta, Puglia, designed by engineer Arturo Boccassini and built between 1932 and 1934 for surgeon Dr. Criscuoli.
A romantic landscape painting created by Luigi Russolo in 1944. The work dates from the late period of the Italian Futurist artist’s career.
