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I palazzi del Seicento a Palermo in una raffigurazione pittorica della collezione Alba di Siviglia

2010

Today just few fragments of some facades or single portals still exist as a testimony of the 17th century palermitan palaces. Within this difficult theme, an important cognitive instrument is represented by one of the drawings of the Alba collection of Seveille, painted by un unknown author in a uncertain date (anyway between 1694 and the first decade of the 18th centu¬ry) and representing a procession during the feast of Santa Rosalia among seats of power, churches and palermitan palaces. The picture is a sort of collage of different buildings that have been drawn one next to each other, without respecting their real urban position, but nevertheless its documentary value is unquestioned. F…