Dialectics of Modernity

Image credits: Architettura (1935) Numero speciale La Città Universitaria di Roma: 23

Image credits: Dettaglio, Architettura (1935) Numero speciale La Città Universitaria di Roma: 23

Image credits: Inaugurazione aula magna La Sapienza con murale Sironi, Architettura (1935) Numero speciale La Città Universitaria di Roma: 1

Image credits: Panorama, Architettura (1935) Numero speciale La Città Universitaria di Roma: 21

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L'Italia tra le arti e le scienze

Artefact Type:

painting

Description:

Sironi's famous mural at Rome University La Sapienza, which should 'illustrate Fascism on the big wall of the lecture hall' of the newly-built university. It is (or it was, before being damaged in 1950) a mythical and celebratory representation of Fascist Italy containing several Fascist symbols, as well as a portrait of Mussolini riding a horse.

Current Location:

Università La Sapienza, Rome

Technique(s):

Fresco

Size:

mq 94

Notes:

Heavily altered after the war in an attempt to defascistize it, the mural is now being restored.

Artist(s):

Mario Sironi

Creation Start Date :

1935

Theme(s) :

Mural Painting
Public art