Corner Portal of Stadio Littorio, Cuneo, 1935
A detail of one of the corner entrances to Stadio Littorio in Cuneo, designed and built in 1935. The stadium is now known as Stadio Fratelli Paschiero.
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
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
Monument to Fascist Revolution Martyrs, Certosa di Bologna
A sculptural monument by Ercole Drei in the Certosa di Bologna’s Sixth Cloister, featuring allegorical figures including Gloria and Forza.
Church of Borgo Mezzanone by Sandri and Canevari
A rural church designed by architect Domenico Sandri and engineer Giovanbattista Canevari for the newly founded settlement of Borgo Mezzanone near Foggia in 1934–35.
Monument to the Fallen, Certosa di Bologna by Giulio Ulisse Arata
A monument designed by architect Giulio Ulisse Arata in 1931–32 within the Sixth Cloister of Bologna’s Certosa, a former Carthusian monastery turned monumental cemetery.
Palazzo del Banco di Napoli by Marcello Piacentini
A Rationalist palazzo in central Naples, designed by Marcello Piacentini in 1939–40 for the Bank of Naples. Since 2022 it has housed the Naples branch of the Intesa Sanpaolo Galleries d’Italia.
Spiral Staircase, Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence
A spiralling staircase detail from Florence’s Stadio Artemio Franchi, designed by engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in the early 1930s. The structure exemplifies Nervi’s pioneering approach to reinforced concrete construction.
Twin Palazzine in Forlì by Cesare Bazzani, 1933
Two symmetrical residential buildings designed by architect Cesare Bazzani in Forlì in 1933, exemplifying early twentieth-century Italian architectural practice.
Palazzo Brasini at Idroscalo, Taranto
Armando Brasini’s Palazzo Brasini, built in 1925 at the Idroscalo in Taranto, now houses the Scuola Volontari Aeronautica Militare.
Stadio Ferruccio, Seregno (1934)
A multipurpose sports facility built in 1934 in the Lombardy town of Seregno, designed in the Italian Rationalist style of the interwar period.
Italian Art and Design Movements, 1920–1940
Between the 1920s and 1940s, Italy developed several artistic, architectural and design movements—Futurism, Razionalism and Novecento—that defined the aesthetic character of the era.