The paper presents a short account of the policy of monuments’ preventive protection, promoted by the Italian government before the Second World War. In fact, since the late twenties, the Italian Ministry of National Education adopted safeguard measures for the protection of monuments in the event of armed conflict through the preparation of a «mobilization plan of works of art in case of war» by which all movable works of art were transferred to deposits selected for their isolation and distance from military objectives. Immovable works of art and monuments were protected against blast or collapse by elaborate brickwork or timber and sandbag frameworks. In spite of the system could not be employed on a large scale - also due to the lack of funds – and the superintendents had to select the most important buildings, whereby anyway hundreds of monuments up and down Italy were cased in protective layers of sand-bags, masonry, or ferro-concrete. On balance this programme of preventive protection must be judged a success.

“I «fortilizi inespugnabili della civiltà italiana»: la protezione antiaerea del patrimonio monumentale italiano durante la seconda guerra mondiale”

COCCOLI, CARLOTTA
2010-01-01

Abstract

The paper presents a short account of the policy of monuments’ preventive protection, promoted by the Italian government before the Second World War. In fact, since the late twenties, the Italian Ministry of National Education adopted safeguard measures for the protection of monuments in the event of armed conflict through the preparation of a «mobilization plan of works of art in case of war» by which all movable works of art were transferred to deposits selected for their isolation and distance from military objectives. Immovable works of art and monuments were protected against blast or collapse by elaborate brickwork or timber and sandbag frameworks. In spite of the system could not be employed on a large scale - also due to the lack of funds – and the superintendents had to select the most important buildings, whereby anyway hundreds of monuments up and down Italy were cased in protective layers of sand-bags, masonry, or ferro-concrete. On balance this programme of preventive protection must be judged a success.
2010
Pensare la prevenzione. Manufatti, usi, ambienti
9788895409146
Italia; prevenzione; danni bellici; monumenti; seconda guerra mondiale
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