Guanti, Cesarina Gualino, 1942
A work on paper by Cesarina Gualino, Italian painter, dancer and art collector, created in 1942 during the interwar period.
A work on paper by Cesarina Gualino, Italian painter, dancer and art collector, created in 1942 during the interwar period.
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.
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.
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.
This monument, designed by Cosimo Sorgi in 1922, commemorates those who died in service. It stands in Caltanissetta, Sicily.
A commercial technical institute in Lodi named after the 19th-century naturalist Agostino Bassi, an entomologist who pioneered germ theory.
A Rationalist administrative building in Aosta designed by architect Giuseppe Momo in 1939, originally built as Casa Littoria for the Fascist Party and now serving as the municipal Department of Industry.
The Palazzina Azzurra is a Rationalist building completed in 1934 in San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno. Designed by engineer Luigi Onorati, it served as a leisure and social venue for the coastal town.
An advertising poster designed by Italian painter Giuseppe Riccobaldi del Bava in 1934. Riccobaldi del Bava was renowned for his work in travel, marketing and industrial poster design during the early twentieth century.
A painting by Corrado Cagli from 1940 depicting a skull and a candle. Created during the artist’s time in Rome, before his wartime displacement.