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Divulgazioni, plagi e incisioni di architettura nel Seicento europeo. Il caso della Bibbia di Melchior Küsel
2018
DIVULGAZIONI, “PLAGI” E INCISIONI DI ARCHITETTURA NEL SEICENTO EUROPEO. IL CASO DELLA BIBBIA DI MELCHIOR KÜSEL Nel 1908 la storica dell’arte austriaca Erika Tietze-Conrat pubblicava un articolo su sull’ Icones Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti…, una bibbia illustrata edita ad Augsburg nel 1680 dall’incisore tedesco Melchior Küsel. La studiosa aveva colto come la peculiarità di questa Bilderbibel risiedesse non soltanto nelle 241 tavole che Küsel aveva inserito come corredo e sfondo delle molte storie tratte dal vecchio e dal nuovo testamento, quanto nella selezione delle fonti iconografiche. La quasi totalità delle incisioni non era frutto di invenzioni di Küsel che aveva realizzato nuovi…
Altari
2019
the contribution identifies and analyzes the success and operational fallout in Sicilian architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of models for altars disseminated through the press. The theme of the altars indeed presents punctual connections with the world of model prints. As in other cases, these engravings were not only aimed at architects but were also intended for a wider world of operators, especially wood sculptors. Between the end of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century, the project area in question knows mutations starting from new texts.
Statistical analysis of engraving traces on a 3D digital model of prehistoric stone stelae
2016
International audience; Studying cultural heritage artefacts, using 3D digital models, is gaining interest. It not only allows applications in documentation and visualisation, but also permits further contact-less examination. In this paper, we are presenting a statistical analysis of stone engravings based on features that were semi-automatically extracted from 3D acquisition data. Our objects of study are two Neolithic stone stelae and a faithful replica that was created in the course of an archaeological study. We use common statistical methods and investigate the populations of depth and diameter of the engraving traces, as well as their correlation. We observe that the erosion of the t…
Wavefront holoscopy: application of digital in-line holography for the inspection of engraved marks in progressive addition lenses
2014
Progressive addition lenses (PALs) are engraved with permanent marks at standardized locations in order to guarantee correct centering and alignment throughout the manufacturing and mounting processes. Out of the production line, engraved marks provide useful information about the PAL as well as act as locator marks to re-ink again the removable marks. Even though those marks should be visible by simple visual inspection with the naked eye, engraving marks are often faint and weak, obscured by scratches, and partially occluded and difficult to recognize on tinted or antireflection-coated lenses. Here, we present an extremely simple optical device (named as wavefront holoscope) for visualiza…
La otra cara del Dios, Patria y Rey: violencia y destrucción en Valencia durante la Guerra de la Independencia.
2016
There are so many reasons why the Peninsular War (1808-1814) is one of a kind chapter of our history. The deep politicization of the city of Valencia during this conflict explains the existence of cruel and violent episodes. These ones weren’t forgotten, but of course they were properly overcome through the years by other expressions of patriotism and heroism. So, the goal of this paper is to examine and think about the artistic expression of these violent events, their functions, evolution and, in conclusion, their lives. Son diversos y pródigos los factores que contribuyen a definir la Guerra de la Independencia española (1808-1814) como uno de los episodios más únicos de nuestra historia…
Vivere e morire regalmente nella Sicilia del secondo Settecento. Incisioni di architettura per il palazzo e per i funerali del principe di Biscari a …
2022
This article presents four engravings that bear witness to the most significant stages of the celebrations organised in Catania for the funeral of the Prince of Biscari, Ignazio Paternò Castello, on 2 September 1786. This graphic corpus constitutes the last opportunity to celebrate the prince’s memory and prominence based on the models established by European courts, but at the same time it reveals more recondite aspects of the research into phenomena of emulation in architecture and self-representation that have not emerged to date from studies on the aristocrat from Catania and that reflect above all the way of life of a cultured personality driven by great ambitions. The aim of the resea…
Disegni e incisioni di Tarquinio Ligustri da Viterbo conservati presso collezioni private e pubbliche italiane, francesi e tedesche
2021
In international, Italian, French and German public collections, but also among private collections, there are architectural drawings by the quadrature painter Tarquinio Ligustri da Viterbo, made after 1596 and depicting portals of his invention. This corpus is mostly unpublished and has remained anonymous for centuries. It consists of a consistent body of preparatory drawings kept at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, and a small number of engravings made from them, distributed in loose form but also bound in a rare miscellaneous volume published in the second half of the seventeenth century by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi‘s famous Roman printing house Alla Pace. The detailed examination of the d…
Woodcuts and Some Words: Edward Gordon Craig’s lasting impressions
2019
This article examines Edward Gordon Craig’s analogy between drama and wood engraving, stage and printed page in his autobiographical handbook on wood engraving, Woodcuts and Some Words (1924). Taking as a premise Craig’s interest in the world of print as materialization of his “new theatre”, it explores the semantic shift of the notion of impression from the symbolist realm of suggestion to that of modernist imprint. It finally seeks to determine the significance of engraving in Craig’s career, a medium that was the matrix, the relic and the archive of the images and of the ideal vision he pursued all his life.
El grabado de valència de la primera parte de la crónica de beuter. Su lectura en el contexto de las imágenes urbanas peninsulares impresas en torno …
2019
The engraving of València from the Primera parte de la crónica by Pere Antoni Beuter, originally published in 1546, is the first overview of the city as a whole. It includes a large number of constructions and features of València, configuring, in addition, the most characteristic point of view to represent the city: the northern. Its modernity has to be compared with other valencian and contemporary peninsular urban engravings. Its comparison with other images will help to understand better the meaning of such an important image for the city of València. El grabado de Valencia de la Primera parte de la crónica de Pere Antoni Beuter, publicado originariamente en 1546, constituye la primera …
Lines or Dots? Reproduction Processes in Handbooks on Illustration, 1890s-1910s
2016
International audience; This chapter examines the way that black and white illustrators came to terms with the industrial use of photomechanical processes and the major changes that occurred in the reproduction of illustrations from the 1890s to the early decades of the 20th century. It explores how handbooks on illustration and illustrators’ autobiographies reflected the need to preserve the so-called “vitality” of the graphic line, an autographic trace of the artist’s gesture. It focuses on the contemporary description and reception of half-tone, the screened process that breaks up tone into dots and that was used to reproduce wash, watercolour, and photographs. This process was often cri…