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Terremoto e architettura storica. Palermo e il sisma del 1726.
2015
On September 1st 1726 Palermo was hit by a violent earthquake. Although it did not bring about the destruction of the city, the earthquake caused widespread and extensive damage to the architectural heritage. The local insti- tutions carried out a series of actions involving representatives of the technical culture. These actions affected the subsequent appearance of the urban pattern and influenced the construction methods of the time. Crossing the data taken from chronicles of the time, from maps produced after the earthquake and above all copious archival documents, the research aims to reconstruct the state in which Palermo was after that tragic event, highlighting a number of aspects. …
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…