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Monday, February 6, 2017

PALACE OF SCIENCES (first part)

PALAZZO DELLE SCIENZE

Piazza Marconi 1

1939/43 Luigi Brusa (1906/61), Gino Cancellotti (1890/1987), Eugenio Montuori (1907/82) e Alfredo Scalpelli (1898/1966)

Built in the same period of the other three buildings arranged symmetrically around the square

On either side of the portico of Piazza Marconi mosaics:

On the right “Guilds” by Enrico Prampolini (1894/1956)

On the left “The Professions and the Arts” by Fortunato Depero (1892/1960)

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