Search results for "Grand Tour"
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Making nonlinear manifold learning models interpretable: The manifold grand tour
2015
Smooth nonlinear topographic maps of the data distribution to guide a Grand Tour visualisation.Prioritisation of data linear views that are most consistent with data structure in the maps.Useful visualisations that cannot be obtained by other more classical approaches. Dimensionality reduction is required to produce visualisations of high dimensional data. In this framework, one of the most straightforward approaches to visualising high dimensional data is based on reducing complexity and applying linear projections while tumbling the projection axes in a defined sequence which generates a Grand Tour of the data. We propose using smooth nonlinear topographic maps of the data distribution to…
Un carnet de voyage digitale nella città di Akragas.
2017
L’articolo intende affrontare uno studio iconografico sulle rappresentazioni più emblematiche della città di Agrigento nelle quali i viaggiatori del Grand Tour tentarono di catturare l’essenza di quei luoghi un tempo massima sacralità del culto pagano, successivamente divenuti meta di approfondimento culturale che ispirarono l’immaginazione di disegnatori e letterati giunti in Sicilia, già a partire dal XVII secolo, per completare gli studi universitari e annotare le proprie esperienze suggellandole in quelle che Platone definiva “le forme più alte e più vere di conoscenza: le idee” per poi raccontarle attraverso itinerari grafici.
Graphic readings and digital configurations: Akragas, Girgenti and Agrigento
2018
The study deals with a graphic analysis of the city of Agrigento through the identification of the territorial, urban and architectural peculiarities that have designed its evolution. Starting from the landscape representations realized since the sixteenth century, the views from the sea by Spannocchi, the glances on the apric territory by Pancrazi, the Hellenic ruins inside the medieval Girgenti by Martorana and the Grand Tour travelers’ productions, the urban transformations of Agrigento are reconstructed starting from the points of view adopted by the draftsmen. The aim is to provide a description through images of the multiple points of view with respect to which the territory has been …
L’evoluzione del sistema turistico salernitano tra tradizione e innovazione (XVIII-XIX secolo)
2009
Gioielli siciliani nelle testimonianze dei viaggiatori inglesi in Sicilia tra XVIII e XIX secolo
2020
The attention that is dedicated to the Decorative Arts in the travelers' diaries is much inferior in comparison to that one turned to the archaeology, to the painting or to the sculpture. As far as jewelry is concerned, in particular, the growing admiration for the craftsman's mastery was flanked by the traditional consideration of its splendor as a status symbol and the ancestral conception of precious stones as bearers of particular magical or apotropaic powers. It is, however, natural that the quotations of jewels in the diaries of the Grand Tour are in small numbers compared, for example, to those relating to archaeological ruins, and their collection is the result of targeted research …
Le miracle de la nature et de l’art - Palermo barocca nel diario di viaggio di Albert Jouvin de Rochefort
2019
The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort’s journey, recounted in his Voyage d’Italie et de Malthe, in 1672, places him among the authors who were at the forefront of the Grand Tour phenomenon, which experienced its golden age between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the following century. Palermo was the first stop on his journey to Sicily and Jouvin was fascinated by it. The closeness of the author to the baroque aesthetic is widely reflected in Palermo not only in the main monuments of the city, but in the entire urban layout, conceived as a Theatre of the World, in which coexist, in a multitude of monumental and decorative solutions, the fundamental social and cult…
La grandeur & la beauté - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori francesi tra XVII e XIX secolo
2021
This volume constitutes the second stage of a research project which, through a detailed study of the accounts of foreign travellers who arrived in Sicily between the 17th and 19th centuries, has identified descriptions of the Sicilian decorative arts seen during their itineraries. After having published the results of the research on the diaries of English travellers in the volume Beauty and Splendour - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori inglesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo, the results of the scientific research on the diaries of French travellers are presented here.
«Napoli a occhio nudo» di Fucini e la nazionalizzazione di un universo discorsivo ‘orientalizzante’ sul Mezzogiorno
2013
Si analizza Napoli a occhio nudo di Renato Fucini, facendo dialogare le strategie retorico-discorsive che nel testo costruiscono l'immagine di Napoli con il dibattito sui processi di 'orientalizzazione' del Mezzogiorno. Se per 'orientalismo' si può intendere «il distribuirsi di una consapevolezza geopolitica entro un insieme di testi poetici, eruditi, economici, sociologici, storiografici e filologici» (E. Said), allora può avere senso chiedersi «come e quando l'Italia meridionale è divenuta “il Sud”, un luogo e un popolo immaginato diverso […]; un serbatoio di residui feudali, pigrizia e squallore da un lato, di contadini pittoreschi, tradizioni popolari ed esotismo dall'altro» (N. Moe). L…
IL GRAND TOUR ‘AL ROVESCIO’. IL VIAGGIO DI PAOLO BALSAMO COME IPOTESI STORIOGRAFICA
2020
Ricostruendo le vicende, accademiche e politiche, che condussero Paolo Balsamo – economista della Regia Accademia di Palermo – dalla Sicilia fino in Inghilterra, ripercorrendo le tappe del suo tour e gettando uno sguardo sulle esperienze vissute durante il soggiorno inglese, ci interrogheremo sull’opportunità storiografica, particolarmente per la storia del pensiero economico, di studiare il Grand Tour ‘capovolto’ degli economisti mediterranei del tardo Settecento e dell’Ottocento.
The Sicily of the Voyage Pittoresque, with a Quick (and Very "Personal") Gaze at the Travel Literature
2019
Travel literature does not constitute an objective source: neither the images nor the texts escape the cliches of the time in which they were written. In the age of the Grand Tour, western culture appropriated the history of Sicily and the South, andit did so by selecting and distorting data and information. From a personal point of view, the author underlines the legacies, born between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which still condition current historiography, perception of places and the collective imagination. Travel literature does not constitute an objective source: neither the images nor the texts escape the clichés of the time in which they were written. In the age of the …