Architect: Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo

Collection Guide: Futurism, Rationalism, and Stile Littorio
26.03.2026

Collection Guide: Futurism, Rationalism, and Stile Littorio26.03.2026

The Drawing Matter collection holds around 70 objects that speak to Italy’s architectural evolution in the early twentieth century. It should be noted that this period was characterised by tremendous stylistic diversity, with movements and groups—often unhappily—coexisting and shifting, ultimately culminating in the dominance of the Stile Littorio. At the… Read More

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Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 1935
20.11.2018

Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 193520.11.2018

– John David Rhodes

Fascist urban planning was animated by the fear that one might be looking at the wrong thing. Too many buildings from too many periods stopped vision from apprehending what ought to have interested it most, the monuments bequeathed to posterity by the classical past. Phrased differently: these monuments, or their… Read More

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