Facade of the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome, photographed 1937)
Black-and-white photograph of an exhibition hall dressed as a monumental gateway. A plain wall carries MOSTRA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE FASCISTA across the top; three dark arches sit between tall vertical slabs, with the single word DUCE in large letters at the centre between two tall flags. Relief panels at each end carry dates, 28 OTTOBRE 1922 on the left. The tell: the building is made a political monument whose only name is the leader's title.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Partito Nazionale Fascista (organiser of the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista), Rome
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; Italian basis, URAA status not asserted)
Photographer unknown, Allestimento della Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista, Rome, 1937; via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
MOSTRA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE FASCISTA DUCE 28 OTTOBRE 1922
EXHIBITION OF THE FASCIST REVOLUTION. DUCE. 28 OCTOBER 1922.
Only the large lettering and the left relief date are legible; the smaller inscriptions on the two inner slabs and the date on the right-hand panel are not legible at this resolution and are not transcribed.
