Stories on Italian and European heritage — architecture, art, places and the people who shaped them.
A Roman office building completed in 1928 for the Tirrena Telephone Company, designed by architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo. The structure features wrought-iron detailing, cast-iron…
March 2019A five-storey luxury apartment building designed by architect Giuseppe De Finetti and completed in 1925 in Milan. The design preserves a historic garden while…
March 2019A painting by Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi from around 1926, depicting a telegraph operator. The work exemplifies Sironi's characteristic style of somber, monumental…
March 2019An advertising poster created by Italian graphic designer Gino Boccasile in 1936. Boccasile was one of the most prominent poster artists of the Fascist…
March 2019An advertising poster promoting Italia in Amalfi, created by Italian painter, illustrator and graphic designer Mario Borgoni. The work exemplifies early 20th-century Italian commercial…
March 2019A bozzetto (preparatory sketch) for the work In ascolto by Italian painter Luciano Ricchetti, executed in 1939. The sketch documents the artist's compositional study…
March 2019A painting by Italian artist Mario Biazzi documenting a listener during a radio broadcast by Mussolini, circa 1939.
March 2019A bronze sculpture of a gentleman on horseback created by Italian sculptor Marino Marini in 1937, exemplifying his interest in Etruscan art and equestrian…
March 2019Ritmi di Stazione is a 1933 short film by Italian director Corrado d'Errico, part of his early experimental work in cinema.
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