Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

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Colosseo square
Construction phase 1940
Facade detail

The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (German: "Palace of Italian Civilization"), also called Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro and Colosseo quadrato , is a building in the Esposizione Universale di Roma, EUR , in the newly built district where the 1942 World Exhibition in Rome was held should have taken place and which served to glorify Italian fascism .

The Colosseo quadrato is located on the Quadrato della Concordia and is a neoclassical building 50 m high, with a foundation 68 and 216 arched arcades on six floors. It should be reminiscent of the Colosseum in Rome. The building planned by the architects Ernesto Bruno La Padula , Giovanni Guerrini and Mario Romano was constructed between 1938 and 1943.

The number of arched arcades corresponds vertically (six) to the name Benito and horizontally (nine) Mussolini .

On each of the four sides of the rectangular building there is an inscription above the arcades, based on the Roman monumental script in capitals : “Un popolo di poeti di artisti di eroi di santi di pensatori di scienziati di navigatori di trasmigratori” , translated: “A people the poet, the artist, the hero, the saint, the thinker, the scientist, the sailor, the wanderer ”. It is a quote from Mussolini's speech of October 2, 1935, in which he declared war on Ethiopia.

The building served as the backdrop for the comedy Hudson Hawk - The Master Thief (1991), the Shakespeare film adaptation of Titus (1999) and the Italian comedy OK Nero (1951).

Between 2003 and 2008 the building was closed to the public for renovation work. The fashion label Fendi moved there in 2015 for an initial 15 years. The ground floor remains generally accessible as an exhibition space, the opening exhibition “Una nuova Roma: L'Eur e il Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana” focuses on the reception of the building and the quarter in art, architecture, film and photography.

literature

  • Maristella Casciato (Ed.): Il Palazzo della Civiltà italiana. Architettura e costruzione del Colosseo quadrato. Motta, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-7179-358-7 .
  • Marcus Denk: The “Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana” as a carrier of fascist ideology. 2 vol., Diploma thesis, University of Passau 2002/03.
  • Sergio Poretti: Il Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. Storia e riuso di un monumento moderno. In: Piani urbanistici, architettura ed arte della Terza Roma. Il Foro Italico e l'E42. (= Monumentidiroma , ISSN  1722-8840 , Vol. 2/2004, No. 1/2). BetaGamma, Rome 2005, pp. 81-88.
  • Erik Wegerhoff: Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro ("Colosseo quadrato"). In: Christina Strunck (Ed.): Rom. Masterpieces of architecture from antiquity to today. Festival ceremony for Elisabeth Kieven. (= Studies on the International History of Architecture and Art, Vol. 43). Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 3-86568-186-7 , pp. 522-524.

Web links

Commons : Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wakako Nakamura: Altri edifici eccellenti. In: Raffaele Lemme (Ed.): Le Case degli Italiani. Vol. 3: Gli edifici della cultura e dell'arte. La civiltà e il progresso dell'Italia unita. Gangemi, Rome 2011, ISBN 978-88-492-2035-3 , pp. 129–141, here p. 136.
  2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy? In: The New Yorker , October 5, 2017. See: Chiara Volpato, Federica Durante, Ambra Cantone: "Popolo di poeti, di artisti, di eroi, di navigatori ...". Lo stereotipo dell'italiano in epoca fascista. In: Giornale italiano di psicologia. Vol. 4, 2007, pp. 851-876.
  3. ^ John Agnew : Filming in Stone. Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and Fascist Signification in Cinema. In: Annali d'Italianistica. Vol. 28, 2010: Capital City: Rome 1870-2010 , pp. 178-198; Most Popular Titles With Location Matching "Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, EUR, Rome, Lazio, Italy". In: IMDb .com .
  4. ^ Paolo Marconi: Il progetto di restauro conservativo del Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. In: Piani urbanistici, architettura ed arte della Terza Roma. Il Foro Italico e l'E42. (= Monumentidiroma , ISSN  1722-8840 , Vol. 2/2004, No. 1/2). BetaGamma, Rome 2005, pp. 89-101; Giorgio Croci, Aymen Herzalla: La ristrutturazione edilizia del palazzo della Civiltà Italiana all'EUR (Roma). In: I beni culturali. Vol. 17, 2009, No. 4/5, pp. 59-63.
  5. ^ Fendi - Inauguration of the new headquarters in the Palazzo della Civiltà. In: GoSee , October 23, 2015.
  6. ^ Fendi Fashion Exhibition To Launch In Rome. In: Fashion Times , October 15, 2015 ( memento from October 23, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ).

Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 12 ° 27 ′ 55.1 ″  E