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Porta et fenestra: frammenti di un libro del Seicento napoletano
2012
In spring 2011 some small engravings of immaginative portals appeared on the antiquarian market in Palermo, interesting traces of a bigger collection probably put together by an unknown Sicilian architect. Assembled with other portals coming from the book "Porte d'archittettura rustica...", by Orazio Perucci, these engravings make part for sure of another book -till now apparently unknown to the scholars - dedicaded to the same specific theme of "Porta et fenestra" (portals and windows), as can be drawn from a fragment of the title page. By the schape and the language, these portals can be easily dated to the seventeenth century, while the author can be identified in Bonaventura Presti (Bol…
Sebastiano Serlio e la Sicilia. Modelli per porte e finestre
2013
Serlio and Sicily. Models for Portals and Windows. More than once historiography has highlighted the role played in Sicilian architecture by Sebastiano Serlio's books. We deal with a clear phenomenon wich is recognizable in many outlines, sometimes in early cases. The spread of these books was synchronous and encompassed the whole half of the 16th century. It seem, from the architectural rsults, that a greater success was obtained by the Libri III and IV, and by the Extraordinario. Withing few decades, many workshop in all Sicily began to reproduced architectural elements based on them; above all gates and windows (the series of works here displayed represents just a selection). The fortune…
Porta et fenestra di Bonaventura Presti. Frammenti di un libro napoletano del Seicento
2013
Eleven separated engravings, which represent portals, and a partially cut out frontispiece are the first evidence of the exis139 tence of a hanbook edited by the architect Bonaventura Presti and probably published in Naples between 1651 and 1664. The images reveal the adoption of formulas referring to the activity of Cosimo Fanzago, and some clues prove their circulation as operational models between the XVII century and early XVIII century in Palermo.
Porte e finestre di Tarquinio Ligustri e la loro fortuna nella Sicilia tra Seicento e Settecento
2013
Il Libro de catafalchi, tabernacoli con varij disegni di Porte, fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura…, published by the famous Roman printing house “alla Pace” of Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, is a collection that summarizes the contributions of various authors and engravers and was elaborated between 1667 and 1691. Eight engravings depicting new models for doors, windows and ornamental motifs, which were related to the drawings kept at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, have recently been attributed to the well-known painter of Viterbo, Tarquinio Ligustri, through the comparison of an engraving kept in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, autographed by Ligustri and published in 1596. These e…
Da Ludovico Scalza a Tarquinio Ligustri. Precisazioni sul Libro de catafalchi, tabernacoli con varij disegni di Porte, fenestre et altri ornamenti di…
2013
The Libro de catafalchi, tabernacoli con varij disegni di Porte, Fenestre et altri Ornamenti di Architettura published by the Roman Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi’s printing house “Alla Pace”, is a collection that summarizes the contributions of various authors and engravers elaborated in the chronological period between the first half of the 16th century and the second half of the 17th. Analyzing these engravings is possible to date the volume between 1667 and 1691. A significant matter concerns the identification of the author of eight engravings depicting new models for doors, windows and ornamental motifs which have been related to some drawings kept in the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin already …