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"II –Il monastero benedettino", in Bonacasa Carra RM, Schirò G, Vitale E, Manenti M, "Il Monastero benedettino di Monreale. Dati storico-archeologici…
2016
In the Norman hunting park dominating the Conca d'Oro, in the second half of the XII century the monumental complex of Monreale began as a rational unitary body, consisting of the royal palace, the Duomo and the Benedictine convent which, from 1176, housed hundred Cluniac monks of Cava de 'Tirreni, called here by King William II; a wall, originally equipped with twelve towers, protected the religious community from possible external attacks. The goal of the founder was the creation of a strong instrument for the Christianization of western Sicily - still predominantly Muslim -, and at the same time of a prestigious dynastic mausoleum, in the explicit intent to rival all previous sacred impe…
The preservation of the Agrigento Cathedral
2013
The Agrigento Cathedral was built about nine centuries ago on the edge of a steep slope made up of alternating inclined layers of soft calcarenites and fine-grained soils; its behaviour has never been satisfactory especially as far as the North aisle is concerned. Many corrective measures have been attempted during its lifespan and also a few years ago. They proved invariably unsuccessful. Recent geotechnical investigations, referred to in the paper, permitted to find out that the main cause of the Cathedral distress is a sliding mechanism involving the upper zone of the slope underlying the North aisle; consequently the essential requirement for the preservation of the Cathedral is the sta…
New Insight on Medieval Painting in Sicily: The Virgin Hodegetria Panel in Monreale Cathedral (Palermo, Italy)
2023
: The Virgin Hodegetria, located in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, near Palermo (Italy), probably dating the first half of the 13th century, is one of the earliest examples of medieval panel painting in Sicily. A diagnostic campaign was carried out on the panel aiming to identify the constituting materials and the executive technique, as well as to assess the state of conservation for supporting the methodological choice of the restoration intervention. Both non invasive (X-ray radiography, digital microscope, multispectral imaging, ED-X-ray fluorescence) and micro-invasive (polarised light microscopy, ESEM-EDX, ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy) analyses w…
Il duomo di San Giorgio a Ragusa-The Cathedral of St. Giorge in Ragusa
2015
Il volume ripercorre la storia di una grande fabbrica dell'architettura siciliana del Settecento, opera dell'architetto Rosario Gagliardi: il duomo di San Giorgio a Ragusa. Le “due raguse” dopo il terremoto del 1693; la chiesa di San Giorgio e il suo architetto; i frammenti della chiesa cinquecentesca: la tribuna di Antonino Gagini; la ricostruzione del duomo dopo il terremoto del 1693; un nuovo progetto per la cupola sono gli argomenti approfonditi dalla ricerca. The volume traces the story of a large religious factory of the eighteenth century in Sicily, a work of the architect Rosario Gagliardi: the cathedral of St. George in Ragusa. The two Raguse after the earthquake of 1693; the churc…