Linford, SarahFoster, LauraMioni, Angelo2024-05-282024-05-282023Mioni, Angelo. "The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana: A New Iconic Architecture for a Model City". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/26Thesis (B.A. in Art History, Minor in Art and Design)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.Benito Mussolini changed Rome drastically during the Fascist Regime from 1922 to 1943. His ambitions included wide scale architectural projects, the most ambitious of these urbanistic projects was the Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR). There nested amongst the fascist architecture we find the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. The Palazzo, also referred to more colloquially as the square coliseum was built to celebrate Italy’s colonization of Ethiopia, and therein to welcome art exhibitions that celebrated and promoted Italian-ness. With its multiple styles, the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and the E42 as a whole emphasize many other aspects of Mussolini’s propaganda, above all the war in Ethiopia, the concepts of Expansion, Colonization and Civilization. As the art historian Kirk discusses, these three important concepts were incorporated in the EUR project especially in the Palazzo Della Civiltà Italiana- and are the keys with which we can understand Mussolini’s propaganda. Moreover, Mussolini had many other secondary aims in his ambitious EUR project, for example the aims to expand Rome to the sea to attain control of the Mediterranean. Another reason why he built the EUR was to give Rome a new more modern city centre that could be viewed as the continuation of the New Italian Empire from that of Augustus. As a consequence of these elements, it is possible to understand why Mussolini considered the E42 complex as the beacon for his fascist ambitions and colonial expansion. Therefore, how did the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana become the public image of colonization, an articulation of fascism, and seek to reinforce the Italian sense of cultural identity? In addition, how does this architectural complex represent the ideologies of the war in Ethiopia?v, 64 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Palazzo della civiltàItalian architectureFascism in artFascism and architectureBuildingsThesis