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: 561 articles · 145 heritage places · 687 events · 12 itineraries · 249 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Duilio Cambellotti (Rome, 10 May 1876 – Rome, 31 January 1960), an artist of many trades, worked in ceramics, glass, wrought iron, illustration and stage design, carrying the spirit of the applied arts from Liberty into…
Arturo Martini (Treviso, 11 August 1889 – Milan, 22 March 1947), among the major Italian sculptors of the twentieth century, died in Milan. Shortly before his death he called sculpture itself into question in the essay…
Arturo Martini (Treviso, 11 August 1889 – Milan, 22 March 1947) was one of the major Italian sculptors between the wars. His work swung between a classicism drawn from antiquity and a modern tension, and it shaped…
Mario Sironi (Sassari, 12 May 1885 – Milan, 13 August 1961), painter and theorist of mural painting, died in Milan. He tied his name to the monumental decoration — frescoes and mosaics — of the public buildings of the…
Mario Sironi (Sassari, 12 May 1885 – Milan, 13 August 1961), painter and decorator, was the leading theorist of mural painting in the period and the author, in 1933, of the «Manifesto of Mural Painting». He made…
Gio Ponti (Milan, 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979), architect, designer and founder of the magazine «Domus», died in Milan. His work in ceramics, furniture and industrial products runs across half a century of…
Gio Ponti (Milan, 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979), architect and designer, was a central figure of Italian industrial design. From 1923 to 1938 he designed ceramics for the Richard-Ginori works; in 1928 he founded…
Four buildings by Giuseppe Terragni, from Como to Milan: the Novocomum apartment block and the Casa del Fascio in Como,
Francesco Agello (Casalpusterlengo, 27 December 1902 – Bresso, 24 November 1942), holder with the Macchi M.C.72 of the world speed record for piston-engined seaplanes (709 km/h, 1934), died in an accident while testing…
Francesco Agello (Casalpusterlengo, 27 December 1902 – Bresso, 24 November 1942), test pilot, on 23 October 1934 set with the Macchi M.C.72 the world speed record for piston-engined seaplanes at 709 km/h: a record still…
