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.
Giacomo Puccini was born at Lucca on 22 December 1858, the last great heir of the Italian operatic tradition. With La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly he took the theatres of the world by way of an immediate melody…
Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels on 29 November 1924, where he had gone to be treated for throat cancer. He left Turandot, his most ambitious opera, unfinished: the ending was completed by Franco Alfano from the…
Claude Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. One of the most inventive composers of his time, he is the musical voice of the symbolist and «impressionist» season that runs parallel to Art Nouveau.…
Claude Debussy died in Paris on 25 March 1918, killed by cancer while the city was under bombardment in the Great War. He left a musical language that changed the very idea of harmony, built out of unusual scales,…
Walter Gropius was born in Berlin on 18 May 1883. In 1919 he founded the Bauhaus at Weimar, the school that joined art, craft and industry and became the laboratory of modern design. The Fagus factory, the first…
Walter Gropius died in Boston on 5 July 1969. He had crossed the century as a protagonist: from the Germany of the Bauhaus, closed by the Nazis in 1933, to the America where he spread modern teaching. More than any…
Hector Guimard was born at Lyon on 10 March 1867 and became the face of French Art Nouveau, so much so that in Paris the style took the name «Style Guimard». The famous entrances to the Paris Métro are his — green…
Hector Guimard died in New York on 20 May 1942, where he had taken refuge in 1938 with his Jewish wife to escape the persecutions in Europe. He died far away and almost forgotten, at a time that judged his Art Nouveau…
Alvar Aalto was born at Kuortane, in Finland, on 3 February 1898. Architect and designer, he gave the modern movement a warm and human face: wood, organic curves and northern light in place of the abstraction of the…
Alvar Aalto died in Helsinki on 11 May 1976, having just completed Finlandia Hall, his last great work in the capital. In half a century of work he had signed buildings, furniture, lamps and glass, exported everywhere…
