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.
Alphonse Mucha was born on 24 July 1860 at Ivančice, in Moravia. In Paris he became, almost by accident, the face of Art Nouveau: the Gismonda poster for Sarah Bernhardt (1894) launched the «style Mucha», with its…
Alphonse Mucha died in Prague on 14 July 1939, a few months after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia: questioned by the Gestapo over his part in Czech national culture, he came out of it physically broken. He left a…
Piero Portaluppi died on 6 July 1967: the architect known for mixing Déco, classical elegance and modernity in the same building.
Giovanni Muzio was born in Milan on 12 February 1893: the man who began the Novecento movement in architecture, known for his stylised classicism.
Adalberto Libera was born at Villa Lagarina on 16 July 1903: one of the founders of Gruppo 7 and a pivotal figure of Italian modern architecture.
Angiolo Mazzoni was born on 21 May 1894: chief architect of the Ministry of Communications, who designed a generation of railway stations and post offices.
Angiolo Mazzoni died on 28 September 1979: the Futurist-Rationalist designer who was a leading figure in the building of the new towns of the Pontine Marshes.
Galileo Chini was born on 2 December 1873: the artist, painter and ceramicist who shaped the decorative apparatus of Liberty and Art Déco in Italy.
Duilio Cambellotti was born in Rome on 10 May 1876: an artist and sculptor whose work is inseparable from the drainage and settlement of the Agro Pontino.
Giuseppe Pagano was born on 20 August 1896: the rigorous Rationalist theorist, architect and long-serving editor of the magazine Casabella.
