Search results for "Decoration"

From the management plan to a protection management system of mosaic decorations in ‘Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalù and Mon…

2014

The rich Arab - Norman architectural heritage of Palermo is, in its manifestation of different forms of art, an exceptional and unique result of a cultural syncretism. It describes the city as a privileged gathering place of the West Christian culture with the Eastern Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world in the twelfth century. The serial nomination of the ‘Arabic - Norman itinerary of Palermo’ includes monuments holding inside a unique mosaic wall and pavement decoration as one of the major artistic features of its outstanding value. Starting from the ‘Management Plan’ presented in December 2011 for the nomination in the World Heritage List of UNESCO, the present contribution reflects ab…

Les détails archéologiques dans les décorations monumentales des bâtiments publics siciliens du XXe siècle : une recherche d’identité

The intervention presented a premise aimed at reconstructing the Greek and Roman past of Sicily, the importance of the archaeological heritage rediscovered during the years of the Grand Tour and the archaeological excavation campaigns between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Subsequently, the presence of «archaeological» details or at least attributable to Greek and Roman classical art and architecture in the monumental decorations of Sicilian public buildings of the 20th century was analyzed, focusing on the period of the fascist regime. Fascist ideology, inspiration from the Roman past for the constitution of the «Third Rome» and references to it in periodicals and Italian architectural…

Ugo Zovetti and Book Decoration. A New Acquisition for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Drawings and Prints Cabinet

2020

The essay focuses on a valuable acquisition of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini graphic art collections: a group of works by Ugo Zovetti Senior (Curzola, Dalmatia, 1879 - Milan, 1974). Ugo Zovetti was a great master of decoration and also distinguished himself in other fields, such as mural painting, advertising painting and engraving. An original, multifaceted artist, Zovetti is particularly valued for his works on paper, and especially the outstanding, highly refined decorated papers.

I tamburi a cornice in Sicilia

2015

Le prime attestazioni della presenza del tamburo a cornice in Sicilia risalgono al V secolo a.C. Lo strumento è poi documentato fino ai giorni nostri attraverso raffigu¬razioni, documenti d’archivio, resoconti di viaggiatori stranieri, testi di interesse folklorico e, piuttosto ampiamente, dalla ricerca etnomusicologica moderna, per mezzo di audio-registrazioni e videofilmati. Morfologia, tecniche esecutive, repertori, decorazioni, contesto d’uso dei tamburelli in Sicilia si inscrivono nel più ampio quadro dell’area italiana (centro-meridionale) e mediterranea, ma con alcune specificità, soprattutto nelle tecniche esecutive. Queste, sebbene affini a quelle impiegate in altre regioni italian…

Arte e architettura nei borghi rurali in Sicilia

The intervention analyzed the artistic aspects of the first eight rural villages built in Sicily in 1940 following the law on the colonisation of the Sicilian rural areas. The artistic decorations present were incorporated into the public architecture of the new villages, especially in churches, "Case del Fascio" and other buildings destined for the common services. They have been identified and classified considering the unpublished photographic documentation in box no. 111 of the Accascina Fund, stored in the Regional Library of Palermo, and the images reproduced by the publications of the time, found through bibliographical researches. Works of art were considered by distinguishing them …

Aspetti artistici nei borghi rurali siciliani degli anni Quaranta

2020

The paper analyses the artistic decorations present in the first eight rural villages built in Sicily in 1940 following the law on the colonisation of the Sicilian rural areas. After a brief introduction on the importance of the relationship between art and architecture during Fascism in Italy, the most common types of intervention are presented. They are identified through analyses of the unpublished photographic documentation in box no. 111 of the Accascina Fund, stored in the Regional Library of Palermo, and a bibliographic research both on the historic and on the contemporary sources. Artistic works are distinguishable in religious and civil, and the latter, in turn, in official represe…

Le cimetière du second âge du Fer du « Bas des Aouches » à Gisy-les-Nobles (Yonne) : découvertes anciennes et fouilles modernes

2015

Die Untersuchung betrifft die Metallfunde einer zufällig am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckten Nekropolesowie die Reste von Körpergräbern, die 1978 am gleichen Fundplatz ausgegraben wurden. Trotz der Dürftigkeit der Informationenermöglichen die Funde eine Unterteilung in chronologische Phasen, die vom zweiten Viertel des 5. Jh. v. Chr. bis zu den letztenJahrzehnten des 3. Jh. v. Chr. reichen und den bereits bekannten Daten des regionalen Bestattungswesens entsprechen

Documentación del Patrimonio Arqueológico mediante el procedimiento del diseño por contacto con las superficies musivas pavimentales y parietales del…

2021

[EN] The archaeological excavations that have been carried out in the Hispano-Roman city of Valeria have exhumed the remains of a thermal complex from the 1st century AD that it was in service for four centuries and that, after its abandonment, it was barely spoiled for its constructive and decorative materials. This circumstance has allowed the conservation of a paving mosaic in a good state of preservation. In this same room has been recovered an important collection of fragments corresponding to the parietal musive decoration that constitutes a unique corpus in the Roman archaeology of the province of Cuenca. Due to the historical-archaeological importance of this type of elements, a met…

Couleur et transparence à l’ère des procédés photomécaniques

2015

This paper aims to show that the reception of British coloured illustrated books in the early twentieth-century reflects the artistic and aesthetic repositioning induced by the development of photomechanical process. Photomechanical reproduction freed the graphic line as well as colour. Reviews published at the turn of the century—as exemplified by The Studio—reveal a tension between opacity and transparency, materiality and lightness, chromophilia and chromophobia. These oppositions apply to the art of the book—as in the books illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac—as well as to interior decoration. They are subsumed in the image of the peacock’s ocellus, the eyespot that symbolise…

Hudožestvennoe ubranstvo cerkvej Valaamskogo monastryrâ XVII - načala XIX veka

2016

The collection of church art of the Valamo monastery belongs to worthy rarities. Due to the evacuation from Karelia to Finland, collection survived almost complete. Despite the fact that the collection is well known to specialists in Finland and Russia, the research processes is just beginning. Especially little information exists about the icons of earlier period than of the 18th century. Almost nothing is known about the number of them, neither origins nor something about the painters of them. Many icons of the 18th century from the Valamo’s collection decorated the monastery churches. For this reason, the focus of this dissertation is the decoration of the main interiors of the Cathedral…