Ninfee by Pippo Rizzo, 1925
Ninfee is a 1925 painting by Pippo Rizzo, a Sicilian painter and sculptor who led the futurist movement in Sicily. The work dates to the artist’s engagement with futurism before his later turn toward Novecento Italiano.
Photographer & Researcher
Stefano Vigolo
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 · 153 heritage places · 713 events · 12 itineraries · 460 photographs
2,828 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- Stazione di servizio A.G.I.P. (u00a0 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli ) oggi Stazione di servizio Tamoil - Asmara , Eritrea
- La torre e il treno - Giorgio De Chirico - 1934 ( Stefano Vigolo )
- Villino oggi Sede dell' Ambasciata Etiope in Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Pietro Del Fabro - 1938
- Fontana di Ghezzabanda oggi Fontana Mai Jah Jah - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Lorenzo Azzolini - 1939
- Palazzo Manifatturau00a0Tabacchi oggi Palazzo British e American Tobacco Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea. 1938
- Edificio abitazione , Quartiere Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea
- Particolare Bar all'interno del Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Fabbrica Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea - 1937
- Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Edificio abitazione e negozi - Asmara , Eritrea
- Caserma della M.V.S.N ( Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale ) oggi Palazzo della Banca d'Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea
- Cinema Augustus oggi Cinema Capitol - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. R. Saviele - 1938
Italian Fascist-Era Archive Reaches 10,000 Facebook Members
A Facebook group dedicated to art, design, and architecture from Italy’s Fascist period (1922–1943) has grown to 10,000 members worldwide. The archive is curated by historian Stefano Vigolo of ABCOnlus.
La partita di carte by Ottone Rosai, 1936
A painting by Florentine artist Ottone Rosai depicting a card game. Created in 1936, the work reflects Rosai’s engagement with Novecento Italiano aesthetics.
Trionfo della morte, Renato Guttuso (1943)
Renato Guttuso’s Trionfo della morte (1943) is a work of Italian Expressionism marked by social and political commentary. Created during the final year of the Second World War, the painting reflects the artist’s engagement with historical crisis.
L’ebbrezza fisica della maternità by Marisa Mori, 1936
A 1936 painting by Italian Futurist artist Marisa Mori exploring themes of motherhood and physical experience.
Magazine Cover Illustration by Duilio Cambellotti, 1939
Duilio Cambellotti created this cover illustration for a magazine in 1939. The applied artist and illustrator was known for his work across Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau traditions.
Magazine Cover Illustration by Duilio Cambellotti, 1937
A magazine cover illustrated by Duilio Cambellotti in 1937. The Italian applied artist brought his characteristic attention to agrarian themes and decorative design to periodical illustration.
Edilizia Moderna, Italian Architecture Journal, 1936
Edilizia Moderna was a monthly periodical devoted to practical architecture and construction, founded in Milan in 1892. The 1936 issue shown here represents the journal’s documentation of contemporary Italian building.
Torre dei Caduti, Bergamo by Marcello Piacentini
A 45-metre square tower erected in Bergamo’s lower city between 1922 and 1924 as a monument to the fallen of the First World War. Designed by architect Marcello Piacentini, it was inaugurated by Mussolini on 27 October 1924.
Portrait of Delia Accetti by Alberto Salietti, 1923
A portrait by Italian painter Alberto Salietti, executed in 1923. Salietti was a Ravenna-born artist whose career spanned the twentieth century, exhibiting regularly at the Venice Biennale from 1920 onwards.