16 — Gallery

The office, in pictures

A visual record of the ministry's working life: the desk, the conference table, the portrait. Every photograph is shown uncropped, as it was taken.

Giuseppe Valditara smiling at his desk in a wood-panelled ministerial office, with the Italian and European flags behind him — Plate I At the ministerial desk, with the Italian and European flags behind

At work

The desk and the table

Two settings that define a minister's routine: the office where decrees are signed and correspondence answered, and the conference table where policy is presented and debated.

Giuseppe Valditara seated at a desk with papers and a small bell, smiling, in a dark suit and burgundy tie — Plate II Working session at the ministerial desk

Giuseppe Valditara seated at a conference table with a microphone, in a grey jacket — Plate III At a conference table, microphone in front

Portrait

A quieter register

Away from flags and lecterns, the portrait offers a different image of public office — attentive, unhurried, conversational. It is the register in which much of the work of a ministry of education actually happens: in meetings with head teachers, unions, families and students.

Institutional frame

Name, title, office

The ministry's own communications frame the minister with his full title — Ministro dell'Istruzione e del Merito.

Giuseppe Valditara at his desk with a title graphic reading Giuseppe Valditara, Ministro dell'Istruzione e del Merito — Plate V Official ministerial frame with title graphic

Overview

The Minister

Policy Areas

International & Media

Contact

The office, in pictures

The desk and the table

A quieter register

Name, title, office