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Il viaggio di Denon in Sicilia e l’architettura templare greca

2018

in May 1778, a group of scholars sent by Jean Benjamin De Laborde and Jean-Claude richard de saint-Non arrived in sicily. it included Dominique Vivante Denon, the architects Jean Louis Desprez and Jean-Augustin renard, and the landscape painter Claude Louis Châtelet. the aim of the team was twofold: on the one hand, to portray and describe the most impressive urban and natural scenarios, aiming at a commercial profit for the publishing company; on the other hand, the meticulous study of antiquity − and in particular of Greek or supposedly Greek architecture − linked to the personal and also educational interests of Denon and the two young architects and supported by strenuous activity in th…