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Fifty-three UNESCO World Heritage Sites are currently listed as in danger, spanning five regions and threatened by armed conflict, climate change, illegal extraction, and…
July 2026Functional, logical, free of superfluous ornament: the Italian current of the Modern Movement, from the Gruppo 7 manifestos of 1926-27 and the MIAR to…
July 2026Born in Milan in 1922 as a painters' movement around Margherita Sarfatti, the Novecento sought a bridge between classical tradition and modernity. In architecture…
July 2026Pure geometric volumes, symmetry, minimal ornament and an explicit appeal to classical Rome reinterpreted in modern key: the monumental style of Italian public architecture…
July 2026Newsreels, documentaries, stock footage and photographs: the documentary core of the Archivio Storico Luce records the Italian twentieth century in images. Since 2013 it…
July 2026Founded in 1924, the world's first State cinema institution produced newsreels and documentaries for two decades. Today, as Archivio Luce Cinecitta, it holds more…
July 2026In the 1930s the regime built new towns, palaces and monuments across Italy and made architecture an instrument of identity and propaganda. From Terragni's…
July 2026In the 1930s the Italian State promoted national art through an organised system of great exhibitions: the Venice Biennale and the first Film Festival,…
July 2026Between 1922 and 1944 Italian art spoke more than one language. Futurist aeropainting, the Novecento of Margherita Sarfatti, Sironi's mural manifesto and a nationwide…
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