Questo saggio prende in esame gli stabilimenti balneari costruiti sul litorale viareggino tra fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento, attraverso trattati medici, guide della città e la ricca documentazione fotografica conservata presso... more
Questo saggio prende in esame gli stabilimenti balneari costruiti sul litorale viareggino tra fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento, attraverso trattati medici, guide della città e la ricca documentazione fotografica conservata presso l'Archivio e Centro Documentario Storico Francesco Bergamini di Viareggio.
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“...I’ve never yelled so much in my life!”. Marcello Piacentini and the Reconstruction of the Palazzo della Ragione in Ferrara (1946-1957) In Studi e ricerche di storia dell'architettura, Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana di Storia... more
“...I’ve never yelled so much in my life!”. Marcello Piacentini and the Reconstruction of the Palazzo della Ragione in Ferrara (1946-1957)
In Studi e ricerche di storia dell'architettura, Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana di Storia dell'Architettura (AISTARCH), 14, 2023
https://www.aistarch.org/rivista14.php
This essay retraces the history of the Palazzo della Ragione in Ferrara, a key public building with medieval origins which was rebuilt during the postwar years according to a project by Marcello Piacentini. The research will specifically focus on the aesthetic and political debates generated by the building and on the pivotal role played by Piacentini, thanks to the extensive body of documents collected at the Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche of the University of Florence and at the City Archives of Ferrara.
By following the steps which led to the final design and the construction, the essay highlights the role of the building in larger debates concerning the restoration of historical monuments after the destruction caused by the Second World War and the contribution of architecture in the definition of a national identity after the divisions caused by the fall of the fascist regime.
In Studi e ricerche di storia dell'architettura, Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana di Storia dell'Architettura (AISTARCH), 14, 2023
https://www.aistarch.org/rivista14.php
This essay retraces the history of the Palazzo della Ragione in Ferrara, a key public building with medieval origins which was rebuilt during the postwar years according to a project by Marcello Piacentini. The research will specifically focus on the aesthetic and political debates generated by the building and on the pivotal role played by Piacentini, thanks to the extensive body of documents collected at the Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche of the University of Florence and at the City Archives of Ferrara.
By following the steps which led to the final design and the construction, the essay highlights the role of the building in larger debates concerning the restoration of historical monuments after the destruction caused by the Second World War and the contribution of architecture in the definition of a national identity after the divisions caused by the fall of the fascist regime.
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Online Exhibition: https://lapietra.nyu.edu/project/the-travel-experience-and-the-construction-of-the-garden-research-in-the-photograph-and-book-collections-of-villa-la-pietra/ The exhibition narrates in six sections the garden of the... more
Online Exhibition: https://lapietra.nyu.edu/project/the-travel-experience-and-the-construction-of-the-garden-research-in-the-photograph-and-book-collections-of-villa-la-pietra/
The exhibition narrates in six sections the garden of the Mitchell Acton family: from its conception to its design, use and fortune, as if on a journey through places and times. Thanks to the variety and integrity of the photographic and library heritage preserved inside the Villa, enhanced in recent years through the digitisation project, the exhibition illustrates the evolution of the ‘Italian’ garden, conceived by Hortense Mitchell and Arthur Acton starting since 1903, when they moved to Villa La Pietra.
The exhibition narrates in six sections the garden of the Mitchell Acton family: from its conception to its design, use and fortune, as if on a journey through places and times. Thanks to the variety and integrity of the photographic and library heritage preserved inside the Villa, enhanced in recent years through the digitisation project, the exhibition illustrates the evolution of the ‘Italian’ garden, conceived by Hortense Mitchell and Arthur Acton starting since 1903, when they moved to Villa La Pietra.
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Fecchio, Lorenzo. “Giacomo d’Adda e il «nuovo miglior ordine» per il Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia (1560-1590)”. In Spazi sacri, luoghi di culto, santuari in area alpina. Persistenze e sviluppi dall’antichità all’età contemporanea, a cura... more
Fecchio, Lorenzo. “Giacomo d’Adda e il «nuovo miglior ordine» per il Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia (1560-1590)”. In Spazi sacri, luoghi di culto, santuari in area alpina. Persistenze e sviluppi dall’antichità all’età contemporanea, a cura di Paolo Cozzo e Pierangelo Gentile, 43-54. Roma: Viella, 2023.
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Il volume, open access, può essere consultato a questo link: https://didapress.it/browse/lezioni-dagli-archivi-di-architettura
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https://www.centropatos.it/lesperienza-del-viaggio-e-la-costruzione-del-giardino-ricerche-nelle-raccolte-fotografiche-e-librarie-di-villa-la-pietra/ In sei sezioni la mostra racconta, come in un viaggio attraverso luoghi e tempi, il... more
https://www.centropatos.it/lesperienza-del-viaggio-e-la-costruzione-del-giardino-ricerche-nelle-raccolte-fotografiche-e-librarie-di-villa-la-pietra/
In sei sezioni la mostra racconta, come in un viaggio attraverso luoghi e tempi, il giardino della famiglia Acton Mitchell: dalla sua ideazione, alla sua progettazione, uso e fortuna. Grazie alla varietà e integrità del patrimonio fotografico e librario conservato all'interno della Villa, valorizzato in questi anni tramite il progetto di digitalizzazione, la mostra illustra l'evoluzione del giardino 'all'italiana', concepito da Hortense Mitchell e Arthur Acton a partire dal 1903, quando si trasferirono a Villa La Pietra (Firenze).
La mostra è supportata da NYU Florence e Università per Stranieri di Siena e pubblicata sul sito del Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Paesaggio in Toscana PaTos.
Consultabile online a partire dal 2 maggio 2023.
In sei sezioni la mostra racconta, come in un viaggio attraverso luoghi e tempi, il giardino della famiglia Acton Mitchell: dalla sua ideazione, alla sua progettazione, uso e fortuna. Grazie alla varietà e integrità del patrimonio fotografico e librario conservato all'interno della Villa, valorizzato in questi anni tramite il progetto di digitalizzazione, la mostra illustra l'evoluzione del giardino 'all'italiana', concepito da Hortense Mitchell e Arthur Acton a partire dal 1903, quando si trasferirono a Villa La Pietra (Firenze).
La mostra è supportata da NYU Florence e Università per Stranieri di Siena e pubblicata sul sito del Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Paesaggio in Toscana PaTos.
Consultabile online a partire dal 2 maggio 2023.
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In: Adriano Marabini architetto imolese (1897-1975), a cura di Micaela Antonucci e Luigi Bartolomei. Bologna: BUP, 2022.
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In Da luce trafitto, Alfredo Bortoluzzi e la via Crucis di Vico del Gargano, a cura di Simone Fontana e Francesco Saggese, Molfetta, L’Immagine, 2022.
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The article examines three engravings, depicting the Sacro Monte (Holy Mountain) at Varallo, one of the main sanctuaries of Northern Italy in the early Modern Age. Between 1606 and 1640, when the engravings were made, the Sacro Monte was... more
The article examines three engravings, depicting the Sacro Monte (Holy Mountain) at Varallo, one of the main sanctuaries of Northern Italy in the early Modern Age. Between 1606 and 1640, when the engravings were made, the Sacro Monte was the scene of continuous quarrels between the local patricians, also known as “vicini”, and the community of Franciscan friars, responsible for the religious life on the Sacro Monte. Both the “vicini” and the friars strived to control the Sacro Monte, because of its strategic position on the Western Alps, at the furthest edges of the Duchy of Milan, bordering the Duchy of Savoy and the Swiss Cantons. This article discusses three different images of the Sacro Monte in the context of these heated conflicts. As argued, the engravings were conceived as powerful means of propaganda and claim and, although ephemeral, they show the attempt to take over a religious monument and its surrounding territory, through the communicative power of images.
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Around 1565, while working in Milan for Palazzo Marino and for the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso, the Late Renaissance architect Galeazzo Alessi designed a renovation plan for the Sacro Monte of Varallo Sesia, outlined in a... more
Around 1565, while working in Milan for Palazzo Marino and for the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso, the Late Renaissance architect Galeazzo Alessi designed a renovation plan for the Sacro Monte of Varallo Sesia, outlined in a 320-sheet manuscript volume known as Libro dei Misteri (1565-1572). The ambitious project foresaw the construction of twenty-four new chapels, a piazza with porticoes, and two monumental gates, together with the restoration of twelve existing buildings. Instead of using the ornamental richness of the ongoing Milanese projects, in Varallo Alessi opted for a concise and abstract architectural language. Alessi developed a particular use of the architectural orders, abstracting some classical elements in a new experimental synthesis. Galeazzo Alessi’s approach to orders was common to other architects of his times and it was rooted in his early studies on Vitruvius, on the ancient Roman monuments and on the architectural examples of the early Sixteenth Century, that he saw during his stay in Rome between 1536 and 1542.
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This article examines a group of recently discovered drawings related to the construction of a new church in the Sacro Monte of Varallo. Over the last forty years, scholars have paid particular attention to the history of the Sacro Monte... more
This article examines a group of recently discovered drawings related to the construction of a new church in the Sacro Monte of Varallo. Over the last forty years, scholars have paid particular attention to the history of the Sacro Monte in the second half of the Sixteenth Century, especially on the leading role played by the Archbishop Carlo Borromeo, who visited the pilgrimage site four times between 1568 and 1584, and Galeazzo Alessi, entrusted with the job of redesigning the entire complex in 1565, a project described in a manuscript volume of architectural drawings known as Libro dei Misteri. Scholars, however, have never deepened the history of the Sacro Monte in the two decades after the conclusion of the Libro dei Misteri. The group of unpublished drawings previously mentioned was realized in 1572-1573 and shed new light on the history of the Sacro Monte after Alessi’s departure from Milan (1569). These documents describe the project of a new church commissioned by Giacomo d’Adda, patron of the Libro dei Misteri, in place of the Church of the Assumption, one of the most important and ancient buildings of the complex. The result is a new modern ecclesiastical building, in line with the most advanced architectural researches in the Borromean Milan and fully conformed to the Counter-Reformation ideas. As argued in this article, the design of the church offers an original solution to the ‘practical, liturgical and theological considerations’ emerged after the Council of Trent and set out in Carlo Borromeo’s Instructionum Fabricae Ecclesiasticae a few years later.