Pontinia Founded Town Walk — the Third New Town of 1935
The founding centre of Pontinia (1935), third of the Pontine new towns, and its civic tower with the inscribed motto […]
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: 125 articles · 81 heritage places · 12 itineraries · 18 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
Sabaudia Rationalist Walk — the Civic Centre of 1934
The civic centre of Sabaudia (1934): the Palazzo Comunale with its tower and the church of the Santissima Annunziata with
Latina (Littoria) Founded City Walk — Frezzotti’s Rationalist Centre
Five stops through the founding centre of Latina (Littoria, 1932), from Frezzotti’s Palazzo Comunale to Palazzo M and the Pontine
Architecture and Power in Fascist Italy: Rationalism, Monumentality, Propaganda
In the 1930s the regime built new towns, palaces and monuments across Italy and made architecture an instrument of identity and propaganda. From Terragni’s rationalism to Piacentini’s monumentalism and the myth of Rome — the facts and the historiography, from Paolo Nicoloso’s «Mussolini architetto».
Art Exhibitions and the Idea of the Nation in 1930s Italy
In the 1930s the Italian State promoted national art through an organised system of great exhibitions: the Venice Biennale and the first Film Festival, the Rome Quadriennale, the syndicate shows and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution. Artistic showcase, instrument of national identity and, in part, propaganda machine.
Art in Interwar Italy: Movements, Artists and the Exhibition System
Between 1922 and 1944 Italian art spoke more than one language. Futurist aeropainting, the Novecento of Margherita Sarfatti, Sironi’s mural manifesto and a nationwide exhibition system — Biennale, Quadriennale, syndicate shows — mapped through documented facts and attributed interpretations.
Mogliano Veneto Between the Wars: A Country Town in Fifteen Years of Photographs
Period photographs on display in a bar in Mogliano Veneto, near Venice, show a Veneto town between the wars: a brand-new civic square by the architect Mario Fabris, Vasco Vian’s war memorial, the years of the youth organizations, and the crowd of 10 June 1940. From the Stefano Vigolo collection.
Secret Sironi: Eleven Posters from a Market Stall and the Restless Master Who Drew Them
Eleven original Mario Sironi posters surfaced from an antiques market — L’Ambrosiano’s editions of the day, the 1924 lottery for disfigured veterans, the 1926 Novecento debut, and the regime’s monumental X of 1932. A journey through the visual code of interwar Italy, from the Stefano Vigolo collection.
Ex Stabilimento Kofler — Padua’s Perfume and Talc Works
Padua: the streamline-moderne corner building of the former Kofler perfume, powder and soap works, which gave the San Giuseppe quarter its “Borgo del Talco” identity. Exact date and architect are not documented.
Ponte de la Cereria — Miozzi’s Rio Novo, 1933
Venice (1933): the Istrian-stone bridge Eugenio Miozzi set over his new Rio Novo canal, named for the candle-makers who once worked this corner of the city.