«Il Pignone»: a 1941 Advertising Poster by Corrado Mancioli
An engineer-turned-poster-artist advertises Florence’s oldest engineering house, branded under its pre-1954 name — the window the 1941 date falls neatly inside.
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: 516 articles · 106 heritage places · 7 events · 12 itineraries · 89 photographs
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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
Bussole Giroscopiche: a Microtecnica Torino Advertising Poster
A gyrocompass poster for a real wartime Turin precision-instrument maker. We could not confirm the signature, so we publish it without an artist name rather than guess.
Bilance Automatiche San Giorgio: an Advertising Poster from Genova-Sestri
A Saint-George knight sells precision scales for a real Genoa engineering firm. The 1927 date and the Santambrogio attribution are the collector’s record, not facts we could independently confirm.
«Incipit Novus Ordo» (1929): the Lost Painting by Arnaldo Carpanetti
A prize-winning, explicitly propagandistic painting from the 1930 Venice Biennale, today recorded as dispersed or destroyed. We document it as period record, not celebration.
«Roma mussoliniana»: a 1933 Lithograph by Giulio Cisari
Trucks, a crane and the Colosseum: Cisari prints the tail end of the Via dell’Impero works that reshaped Rome around the amphitheatre in 1932-33.
A Dam Under Construction: a Lithograph Attributed to Giulio Cisari, and a Date That Doesn’t Fit
A construction-site print titled after the Santa Chiara dam in Sardinia — except the dam was finished nine years before the date on the print. We publish the discrepancy along with the image.
Portrait of Umberto di Savoia, attributed to Fausto Giorno (1933)
A synthetic Art Deco profile portrait of Crown Prince Umberto, signed Fausto Giorno — the pen name of the Futurist Tiburzio Notte, reconstructed by scholarship only in 2021.
Palazzo di Finanza, Trapani (1924)
Trapani’s palace of the state financial offices, finished in 1924 as its own carved date records: late-eclectic public architecture one generation before rationalism, today disused behind the Comune’s barriers.
Casa del Mutilato, Trapani (Giuseppe Eugenio Genovese, 1937)
The provincial house of Trapani’s war-disabled veterans, designed by Giuseppe Eugenio Genovese and inaugurated during Mussolini’s August 1937 tour — the Luce photographs of him on its balcony survive, and so does the building, closed and waiting.
Scuola Elementare «Giovanni Pascoli», Senigallia (Marcello Diamantini, 1938)
A rationalist school of 1938 by Marcello Diamantini, built where the 1930 earthquake felled a sixteenth-century convent; first named after Costanzo Ciano, renamed after the poet Pascoli, and still teaching.