CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO ITALIAN
SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRIAL ART
Umanitaria Professional School of Milan
High School of Industrial Art at Monza
taria of Milan and the Instutuo Superiore per le
Industrie Artistiche at the Villa Reale at Monza well
deserve to be called model schools," and are recog
nized as such not only in Italy, but also throughout
Europe. Such schools, of which the one is closely
connected with the other in the successive steps of
study, cover a complete course in every aspect with an
accompanying education which is in the vanguard,
whether in technical problems or in the cultivation of
taste, obtaining results which we can call perfect, not
only from those who obtain entrance as pupils of a
scholastic institution, but workers already perfect in
the practice of every day or artists already introduced
to their profession.
The photographs which we reproduce provide a
convincing illustration.
What are the principles which characterize the system
Discipline, selection, professional supervision, search
for quality and aptitude, daily and interdependent
programmes, personal instruction by proved com-
Two schools of Industrial Ail in Italy,
where directors, leachers and pupils
all belong In the Fascist regime are
described in the following article
and examples of the work at both
schools are given.
M THE SCUOLE PROFESSIONALI DELLA SOCIETA UMANI-
UMANiTAiiiA school. Silver and Engraving Department. A vase
in hammered and engraved silver. Subject: the victory of the Battle
of Grain. Given to S. E. Benito Mussolini 215
