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Storia dell'Architettura in Sicilia (XV-XVIII secolo). Un percorso didattico
Il volume propone una storia dell’architettura in Sicilia aggiornata e in controtendenza, per allievi, ma non solo, fuori dai luoghi comuni e dagli stereotipi. Alla fine del testo sono contemplate schede sulle opere siciliane più significative. La finalità di questo lavoro è soprattutto didattica e possiede una componente interattiva (offrendo al lettore la possibilità di aggiungere notizie, osservazioni, disegni e immagini), mentre il racconto cronologico a grandi falcate è preceduto da un nucleo di riflessioni trasversali. L’idea è quella di un libro dove il lettore sia continuamente costretto a riprendere e riannodare le tre parti di cui è composto e invogliato a compiere ulteriori ricer…
La dimora di un mercante catalano a Palermo: Palazzo Bonet
The Bonet Palace in Palermo still shows characters linjed to the great 15th construction period, despite being heavily tampered with and transformed. The importance of the architecture had already been recognized by contemporaries, while from the current point of view the aspects related to the social rice of the owner stand out. The essay examines these issues and tries to offer some answers also on the original appearance of the building.
Le cupole in pietra a vista nel primo Cinquecento in Sicilia
The essay deals with the birth and the series changes relating to the construction of stone domes set on chapels in Sicily in the early sixteenth century. The selected examples and the solutions put in place by architects and builders of the time show a surprising and modern intertwining of languages, between Gothic, Renaissance and ancient local, and reveal the reasons for choices that contain an ideological component or a design and construction practice, facilitated by contracts by analogy.
Stefano Ittar architetto "romano" e il progetto per la chiesa dell'Annunziata a Paternò
The investigation of a nineteenth-century drawing relating to the bell tower facade of the Annunziata church in Paternò offers the opportunity to reconstruct the biography of the Polish architect Stefano Ittar, involved in the construction of the church since 1768. The contribution examines the methods of entry and of Ittar's affirmation on the Sicilian scene by evaluating the alleged declaration of "Romanity" that accompanies his professional figure starting from the documentary data, punctually denied by his architecture and his design choices.
UNO SGUARDO ALLE FONTI SULL’ARCHITETTURA CIVILE TRA QUATTROCENTO E CINQUECENTO IN SICILIA: I CONTRATTI PER ANALOGIA
This study examines the copious contractual documentation related to the construction of civil architecture in Sicily between the 15th and 16th centuries. Taking also into account the legal value of the acts, a series of observations emerge providing a more precise portrait of the masters involved, the architectural design and social behavior of the contractors. A framework of conventions and procedures comes out that combines local characters and long-lasting Mediterranean traditions.
I disegni di Rosario Gagliardi conservati presso il Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo
The Department of Architecture of Palermo keeps some drawings related to the activity of one of the greatest architects to have worked in Sicily in the eighteenth century: Rosario Gagliardi (Syracuse, ca. 1690-Noto, 1762). The importance of the small corpus - coming from a collection already constituted in the 18th century (the Mazza Collection) - is also linked to the fact that the drawings include famous edifices of Sicilian Baroque architecture: from the cathedral of San Giorgio in Ragusa to the churches of Santa Chiara and San Domenico in Noto. The thorough examination of the drawings offers the opportunity for a more general reflection on the characteristics of architectural design in …
Prima della "Rivoluzione scientifica": uno sguardo alla ricerca antisismica nella Sicilia d'età moderna (XVI-XVIII secolo)
The contribution presents and examines, through documentary readings, anti-seismic strategies and practices born with experience and with the relationship with history, selected and consolidated over time, applied in Sicilian construction from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century by architects and master builders after the great earthquakes that hit the island in the modern age.
ANDREA GIGANTE E GLI ALTRI: SULL’AUTOREVOLEZZA PROFESSIONALE DELL’ARCHITETTO NEL SETTECENTO A PALERMO
This contribution is based on the transcription and commentary of a document from the mid-18th century. The dialectic between Andrea Gigante (1731-1787) and a client for a specific service (a project and model of an altar in the church of San Carlo) indirectly reveals the status of social authority achieved in Palermo by the architect.
Nelle terre degli “eretici” L’opera degli allievi di Carlo Fontana in Sicilia
La comunicazione, articolata a quattro mani, intende approfondire l’esperienza professionale svolta in Sicilia da alcuni degli architetti formatisi presso l’atelier di Carlo Fontana o presso l’Accademia di San Luca. L’ipotesi di lavoro è quella di saggiare in che modo i modelli di scuola romana e l’ortodossia classicista abbiano trovato spazi in un’isola dove, dalla seconda metà del XVII secolo, le tendenze dominanti sono orientate all’iperdecorazione e caratterizzate da forme di contaminazione professionale tra architettura e scultura. Studiando l’attività di architetti come Giacomo Amato o i progetti prodotti da Giovan Batista Contini, Romano Carapecchia o Nicola Michetti si esamineranno …