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The late baroque towns of Val di Noto in the UNESCO World Heritage List

2008

Cities Late baroque Val di Noto Unesco ArchitectureSettore ICAR/18 - Storia Dell'Architettura
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«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 …

Guarino Guarini Santissima Annunziata Church in Messina 1693 and 1908 heartquakes late baroque architecture in Sicily bell towersSettore ICAR/18 - Storia Dell'Architettura
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Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium Roma 1688 Breve trattato sulle fabbriche civili e militari e la conservazione delle architett…

2013

Il volume Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium Roma 1688 Breve trattato sulle fabbriche civili e militari e la conservazione delle architetture del frate domenicano Tommaso Maria Napoli, vuole contribuire ad accrescere le nostre conoscenze sui principi che dovevano sottendere alla realizzazione dell’architettura civile e militare del periodo barocco e tardo barocco, così come espressi nel breve trattato scritto dal frate architetto, nato a Palermo, Tommaso Maria Napoli (1659-1725), e pubblicato a Roma alla fine del Seicento. Alla traduzione dal latino del trattato, redatta da esperti (Fabio Zarbo e Pietro Zarbo), è inclusa un’interessante ricerca, redatta congiuntamente c…

The volume Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Brief Compendium 1688 Rome treaty on civil and military factories and preservation of the architecture of the Dominican friar Tommaso Maria Napoli wants to help increase our understanding of the principles that should underpin the realization of civil and military baroque and late baroque period as expressed in the short treatise written by the monk architect born in Palermo Tommaso Maria Napoli (1659-1725) and published in Rome at the end of the seventeenth century. This translation from the Latin of the treaty drawn up by experts (Fabio Zarbo e Pietro Zarbo) included is an interesting research drafted jointly with Giuseppe Tantillo status of some of the architecture without realizing or attributed to the architect Tommaso Maria Napoli. In fact some cards are attached to the volume on the substance and state of preservation of the cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Dubrovnik (Croatia) of the villas Valguarnera and Palagonia in Bagheria (near Palermo Italy) of the monument to the Immaculate and one of the towers of the church of San Domenico in Palermo (Italy). The volume is enriched by the presentation and afterword by Francesco Tomaselli that among other things starting from the definition of Restoration expressed by Tommaso Maria Napoli in his book presents a stimulating reflection on the meaning of Restoration. The essay Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium 1688 ... is the first of the series Monument Document for the conservation of the architectural heritage and environment: Theory knowledge interventions publisher Aracne in Rome with director Francesco Tomaselli and with Comittee Scientific and editorial international.Settore ICAR/19 - Restauro
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Palazzo Valguarnera a Palermo

2021

Between about 1750 and 1765, during the Borbon government, a favorable political circumstance determined, in the Island’s capitol, an evident develop of construction activity linked to the aristocratic class. In that period, by means of substantial restructuring and in some cases new construction, the most monumental and artistically meaningful noble palaces of Palermo’s historical center were built, involving significant economic resources and the main architects and artists. The news projects, beyond the different choices, followed two main criteria: -the scenic exaltation of the sequence portal-atrium-courtyard-staircase arranged along the same axis; -the extension of the salons enfilade…

aristocratic mansion - late baroque - SicilySettore ICAR/18 - Storia Dell'Architettura
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