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
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
The Macchi M.C.94 was a 1930s Italian commercial flying boat designed by Mario Castoldi for passenger transport. Built primarily of wood, the aircraft featured a two-step hull and twin radial engines.
Vele al Vento is a 1925 work by Pippo Rizzo, the leading figure of Sicilian Futurism. The painting exemplifies the artist’s early engagement with the Futurist movement.
Fortunato Depero’s Case alpestri from 1936 represents a futurist approach to Alpine domestic architecture. The work exemplifies Depero’s multidisciplinary practice as painter, sculptor, and designer.
La Rissa is a 1926 work by Italian Futurist painter Fortunato Depero. The painting exemplifies the movement’s pursuit of dynamic abstraction and energetic formal reconstruction.
A painting by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero from the early 1920s, depicting a drinker in Anacapri. The work exemplifies Depero’s engagement with Futurist abstraction and formal innovation.
A 1924 work by Italian Futurist painter and designer Fortunato Depero depicting Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Futurism movement.
A 1921 painting by Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi depicting an urban periphery with a tram and crane, exemplifying his characteristic style of massive, immobile forms.
La Famiglia is a 1929 painting by Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi, characterized by the massive, immobile forms typical of his work.
A painting of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, the distinctive three peaks in the Dolomites, executed by Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi around 1940.
An urban landscape painting by Italian Modernist Mario Sironi, completed in 1928. The work exemplifies the artist’s characteristic style of monumental, static forms rendered in somber tones.
