All roads lead to Rome (A. Funi)

The entrance of Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e dei Congressi, today known as the "Kennedy Foyer", is decorated with the fresco All roads lead to Rome, created by Achille Funi in 1943. The painting was to have occupied the entire back wall of the atrium and the two lesser side walls; however, bombing of the city in July 1943 forced Funi to stop work when he had completed only 20 of the 74 metres foreseen as the total length of the work.
After the war, in 1953, the Federation of Agrarian Consortia (which organised the Agricultural Exhibition in the building) decided to cover the fresco, given its strong ideological ties to the regime. As a result, Gino Severini was commissioned to paint a large frieze on wooden panels, which covered Funi's fresco; it was only at the end of the Eighties that the time was right to uncover the fresco again, and it can still be admired today.