Advertising Poster by Marcello Nizzoli, 1927
An advertising poster designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1927, exemplifying the Italian graphic designer’s mastery of avant-garde commercial art during the interwar period.
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: 750 articles · 152 heritage places · 1,871 events · 12 itineraries · 556 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
La partita di pallone by Mario Radice, 1933
An abstract painting by Mario Radice from 1933, created during the artist’s pioneering engagement with non-figurative art in Italy.
The Savoia Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero
The SIAI-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero was a wooden-framed Italian aircraft that set 26 world records between 1937 and 1939 and served across multiple roles during the Second World War.
Stipa-Caproni: Experimental Aircraft, 1932
The Stipa-Caproni was an experimental Italian aircraft designed by engineer Luigi Stipa in 1932 and built by Caproni. Its innovative barrel-shaped fuselage functioned as a single ducted fan, enclosing the engine and propeller entirely.
Guanti, Cesarina Gualino, 1942
A work on paper by Cesarina Gualino, Italian painter, dancer and art collector, created in 1942 during the interwar period.
Giuseppe Galliano Elementary School, Ceva
The elementary school in Ceva, Piedmont, honours a decorated Italian military officer. The building is one of several civic memorials to Galliano in his hometown.
Casa Mazzotti, Albissola Marina by Nicolay Diulgheroff
A residence, studio and shop built between 1930 and 1934 in Liguria, designed by Bulgarian architect Nicolay Diulgheroff for artist Tullio d’Albisola. One of the few intact examples of Futurist architecture surviving to the present day.
Chiesa, Borgo Petilia, Caltanissetta
A church in Borgo Petilia, a rural settlement in Sicily designed by architect Edoardo Caracciolo in 1939 as part of Italy’s interwar agricultural reorganization programme.
Monument to the Fallen, Caltanissetta, by Cosimo Sorgi
This monument, designed by Cosimo Sorgi in 1922, commemorates those who died in service. It stands in Caltanissetta, Sicily.
Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Agostino Bassi, Lodi
A commercial technical institute in Lodi named after the 19th-century naturalist Agostino Bassi, an entomologist who pioneered germ theory.