L’arredamento dell’Ambasciata d’Italia a Varsavia. Nuove acquisizioni documentarie
The Furnishings of the Italian Embassy in Warsaw. New Documentary Acquisitions

Summary/Abstract: The present essay, aimed at reconstructing the history of the works of art which furnish the Italian Embassy in Warsaw, originates from the study of archival documents from the STRP Fund (formerly the Technical Service of Patrimonial Reconnaissance) kept at the General Directorate of Archaeology Fine Arts and Landscape of the Ministry of Culture (MIC). The fund consists of the documentation, mostly unpublished, produced by the Technical Service, which was created in 1993 as a Commission, conceived by Minister Alberto Ronchey, with the aim of taking a census of cultural assets granted in external storage by state museums to entities in Italy and abroad, which in 1995 had been transformed into a Service reporting directly to the General Secretariat of the Ministry itself but was suspended in 2003. The last patrimonial reconnaissance was carried out at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw twenty-one years ago and since then no more checks have been done. Therefore, in addition to analyzing the history of the works of art chosen to furnish the Embassy since 1922, the essay updates the data and gives new interpretations on the events that, both before and after the 2nd World War, led to its furnishing; moreover, it is meant to be a food for thought regarding the protection of Italian artistic heritage which since the first decades of the last century until the present has been in external storage without due control.

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