Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/mefrim.1478>
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DOI: <
10.4000/mefrim.1478>
Abstract
From a comparative perspective, this article aims to analyze the architecture edified for the regional exhibition in Rome in 1911 (as part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification), in relation to the educational policy delevopped by the government during the età giolittiana. The 1911 exhibition was made up of several pavilions designed by regional committees and representing the artistic specificity of each region. Most of the pavilions adopted forms referring to the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance art because of a set of identity references related to Communal Italy. By offering a journey through Italy, the organizers went beyond the opposition between local and national scale, and put the Italian regional diversity in the service of national unity. A sense of local identity was used as a vector of integration into a nation primarily defined by the artistic inclinations of the Italians.