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ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’ARCHITETTURA CIVILE A SIRACUSA E NEGLI IBLEI FRA XV E XVI SECOLO
2021
The few buildings that survived the 1693 earthquake, concentrated mainly in the city of Syracuse, offer a fragmentary picture of late Gothic civil architecture in south-eastern Sicily. The analysis of the detail elements such as windows and doorawys in the facades, stairways and loggias inside the courtyards, marked by the coexistence of late Gothic and Renaissance architectural languages, highlights the adoption of decorative motifs widespread throughout Sicily and the Mediterranean context. However, many original solutions emerge, such as the square mullioned window, largely common in the city of Syracuse but also present in Scicli, probably very common in the urban landscape of the hybla…
A tale of two palaces and a city: Valencia, 1238-1460
2013
Este artículo estudia las relaciones entre el palacio del Real (Palau del Real), la residencia de los reyes de Aragón en Valencia y la Casa de la Ciudad (Casa de la Ciutat o Sala del Consell) desde la conquista cristiana hasta el final del reinado de Alfonso V el Magnánimo. Durante dos siglos la corte real y el gobierno de la ciudad manifestaron la alianza, la rivalidad y los conflictos a través de la arquitectura y la decoración de sus respectivas sedes. Los emplazamientos, las grandes salas, las capillas con reliquias y las fiestas cívicas desempeñaron un papel notable como instrumentos al servicio tanto de los reyes y sus oficiales como de los consejeros municipales. Aunque ambos palacio…
Antonio Belguardo. Un maestro nella Palermo tra XV e XVI secolo: il regesto documentario
2016
Le informazioni documentarie emerse in questi ultimi anni sulla figura di Antonio Belguardo permettono di tracciare con maggiore compiutezza il profilo biografico e la parabola professionale di uno dei più prolifici protagonisti della stagione tardogotica dell’architettura siciliana; la sua attività, per quanto sinora noto, si concentra prevalentemente a Palermo tra l’ultimo quarto del XV secolo e i primi decenni del XVI. New documents that have come to light on Antonio Belguardo allow us to draw a more complete biographic profile of one of the most prolific protagonists of Late Gothic Sicilian architecture; His activity, as far as we know, was mainly carried out in Palermo, between the las…