Search results for " BAROQUE"
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The blue enamels in the baroque decorations of the churches of Palermo, Sicily: Fe2+-coloured glasses from lime kilns
2009
Deep blue glasses coloured by octahedral Fe 2+ cations are often reported as textbook examples of blue pigmentation. However, despite the possibility of laboratory synthesis under reducing conditions, to date there are no well-reported occurrences of their production and use in the past. A thorough historical, ethnographic, mineralogical, and chemico-physical investigation of the 'smaltini di calcara' from several baroque churches in Palermo, Sicily, has revealed that the blue enamels widely used for altar decorations in the 17th and 18th centuries are actually a unique case of ancient blue glasses pigmented by divalent iron cations in distorted octahedral coordination. This mixed-alkali gl…
The imaginary and the element of water in the baroque text (1580-1640) : Structures, patterns, roles and values
2017
The imbalance and the chaos in which Baroque man lived, changed his vision of his entourage and at the same time they excluded the gratuitousness of his actions. His fascinations are messages to be deciphered, his rejections and attachments represent revealing clues and testimonials. Our study tries to explain the reasons of the fascination of the baroque generation for the liquid element through the examination of the imaginary of its aspects in the baroque work. The imaginary or what Gilbert Durand calls "thought capital" of man is a hybrid organism, several factors participate in its structuring therefore its examination requires an interdisciplinary approach. Through cognitive science, …
The late baroque towns of Val di Noto in the UNESCO World Heritage List
2008
LE GLORIE AFFRESCATE DI COSTANTINO CARASI
2018
L’opera di Costantino Carasi, artista nativo di Noto, non è facile da definire in termini filologici e formali. Egli fu un artista minore che concorse, assieme ai maggiori, a esplicitare sia il tessuto artistico e culturale, sia la dimensione spirituale e religiosa di un territorio poco indagato. Lo studio esplora i fondamenti di un linguaggio tardo-barocco che si rapporta a personalità come Maratta, Sozzi, D’Anna, che determinarono, tra fine Settecento e prima metà del XVIII secolo, la decorazione pittorica nello spazio liturgico. Carasi espresse la sua visione “teologica” conforme ai dettami post-tridentini e celebrò la condizione ecclesiale della sua epoca. Costantino Carasi’s work, Noto…
La celda del Padre Salamanca en el Convento de la Merced de Cuzco. Guía conceptual de la vida religiosa mercedaria en el altiplano peruano del seteci…
2009
En el año 1650 un terremoto destruye el convento de la Merced de Cuzco, por lo que ha de ser reconstruido de nuevo. Con este motivo se lleva a cabo en el claustro bajo una celda, apodada del Padre Salamanca, cuyos muros y techos están totalmente recubiertos con pinturas al temple, que componen un programa iconográfico unitario, a pesar de que se observan varios estilos y la participación de al menos dos o tres artistas. Este programa sigue los modelos de la Iglesia Contrarreformista y las escenas se estructuran en las cuatro salas de la celda: en el zaguán las virtudes que debe practicar el monje, en el vestíbulo temas iconográficos mercedarios, en el dormitorio la Infancia de Cristo, en la…
1682 un'annata florida. Andrea Mamingari, Paolo Amato e un'inedita cassetta reliquiaria della Cattedrale di Palermo
2022
The study of an unprecedented reliquary box of the Cathedral of Palermo is an opportunity to reconstruct a happy productive context and expand the catalog of the works of the silversmith Andrea Mamingari
Epitalamios e himeneos. Iconografía y literatura nupcial en las cortes del Barroco.
2010
En este estudio se aborda, bajo una visión general, los textos y las imágenes presentes en algunos epitalamios e himeneos: composiciones poéticas de los siglos XVII y XVIII, realizadas en las cortes europeas con motivo de los matrimonios concertados entre sus miembros. Sus imágenes emblemáticas y simbólicas, son de gran interés para la historia del arte, pues se inspiran en las composiciones de los libros de emblemas del periodo y desarrollan temas habituales en la literatura matrimonial. No obstante, lo más significativo son los mensajes políticos que difunden, fundamentalmente los beneficios políticos de las uniones dinásticas. This study deals, from a general point of view, with the text…
Giacomo Serpotta tra sacro e profano
2022
We shall be taking an innovative and original approach in our examination of the insuperable figure of Giacomo Serpotta, an outstanding Sicilian stucco sculptor of the 18th century. The complete artistic output of Giacomo Serpotta is traced, oscillating between the sacred and the profane in the sculptural adornment of many churches and oratories. Here, Giacomo Serpotta shifts from the Baroque to Rococo, originating a sculptural art that is profoundly innovative in its language and symbology. Formal reading and chromatic-spatial games are intertwined with the symbolic in the light of significant essays by Carl Gustav Jung, Martin Heidegger and Carlo Giulio Argan
«Nolite extollere in altum cornu vestrum». Ipotesi sul campanile della chiesa della Santissima Annunziata di Messina
2022
This article addresses a series of hypothesis concerning the octagonal space indicated in Guarino Guarini’s drawings of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata in Messina in his Architettura Civile. The façade of the church was completed around 1660 by Guarino Guarini and presented a «prodigiously high» bell tower at the corner, which collapsed during the 1693 earthquake and was later rebuilt shorter. The entire church was destroyed during the 1908 earthquake. Guarini’s drawings published in his treatise suggest that there must have been an octagonal chapel with columns at the corners under the tower; perhaps it was the baptistery of the church. Alternatively, the octagon can be identified …
Orphaned siblings and noble families in baroque Rome
2010
The essay investigates the impact of the premature death of the father on brother and sister groups in noble Roman families of the seventeenth century. More specifically, it explores how this loss reflected on the biographical itineraries of individual members of the sibling unit; how adelphic relations between the orphans were reformulated according to order of birth and first born or cadet status, age, and sex; and what forms of solidarity and competition were engendered by the loss of a father. Since demographic historians have shown that orphanage at an early age is an important variable, the author argues that it cannot be overlooked – as historians have done so far – in studies on fam…