The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista) was a show held in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Palazzo delle Esposizioni

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via Nazionale in Rome.Designed by Pio Piacentini, it opened in 1883. It has housed several exhibitions The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via...

 from 1932 to 1934. Opened by Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

 on 28 October 1932, it had 4 million visitors.

Its director and designer was Dino Alfieri

Dino Alfieri

Edoardo Alfieri was an Italian fascist politician.Alfieri was born in Bologna. In 1911 he finished law studies and soon after joined the nationalist group formed by Enrico Corradini...

, with the cooperation of Luigi Freddi

Luigi Freddi

Luigi Freddi was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vicesegretario of the Fasci italiani all'estero, and later one of those most responsible for Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and the start of the 1940s.As a futurist and a...

 and Cipriano Efisio Oppo

Cipriano Efisio Oppo

-Early life:Trained at the Istituto di belle arti in Rome, he began his career as a caricaturist for L’Idea Nazionale. From 1910 he devoted himself to painting, tending towards the fauves, in particular Henri Matisse. In 1914 he contributed to the exhibition given by the Roman Secession...

. Seen as a great success, it was repeated in 1937 and 1942, though these two repeats did not have the same public success.

Telling the evolution of Italian history from 1914 to the March on Rome

March on Rome

The March on Rome was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in the Kingdom of Italy...

, it was never conceived as an objective representation of the facts or as being solely based on the exhibiting of historic documents, but as a work of Fascist propaganda

Propaganda of Fascist Italy

Propaganda of Fascist Italy was the material put forth by Italian Fascism to justify its authority and programs and encourage popular support.-Use:...

 to influence and involve the audience emotionally. For this reason not only historians were called in to assist in the exhibition, but also exponents of various artistic currents of the era, such as Mario Sironi

Mario Sironi

Mario Sironi was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.-Biography:...

, Enrico Prampolini

Enrico Prampolini

Enrico Prampolini was an Italian Futurist painter, sculptor and scenographer. He assisted in the design of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution and was active in Aeropainting....

, Gerardo Dottori

Gerardo Dottori

Gerardo Dottori was an Italian Futurist painter. He signed the Futurist Manifesto of Aeropainting in 1929...

, Adalberto Libera

Adalberto Libera

Adalberto Libera is one of the most representative architects of the Italian Modern movement, which should not be confused with the Italian Rationalist movement, with which he only had a short-lived relationship....

 and Giuseppe Terragni

Giuseppe Terragni

Giuseppe Terragni was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism...

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