Fascist Italy
Italy to open first museum of fascism
Curators of the controversial Salò institution say museum will “neither demonise nor defend” fascist leader Benito Mussolini
Italynews
Mussolini family feuds over reopened crypt of fascist Italian dictator
The controversial site has become a pilgrimage for far-right supporters
Exhibitionsarchive
Under Mussolini: decorative and propaganda arts of the Twenties and Thirties from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa
Estorick Collection
May 1999archive
Richard Meier to obliterate Mussolini’s mark
The US architect's new building for ancient Roman monument to replace one commissioned by the Fascist dictator in the 1930s
Antiquities & Archaeologyarchive
The grandest archaeological project since Mussolini’s time has required a special, bureaucracy-defeating agreement
Where archaeology becomes power
Romearchive
In 1993 Rome’s town council began preparing for the Millennium. The debate has been over how much to alter Mussolini’s propagandistic exploitation of imperial remains
The priject to execavate the imperial fora of Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan has been described as “every archaeologist’s dream”
Restitutionarchive
Ethiopian football fans demand return of Axum obelisk looted by Mussolini
Official campaign for restitution of sculptured stele
Exhibitionsarchive
Accused of being a fascist artist after World War II, famous yet neglected, Mantegna now gets his major show
Nicholas Penny talks to the exhibition organiser David Landau about his all-embracing view of one of the greatest Renaissance artists