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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 Palazzo Reale di Palermo in età moderna (XVI-XVII secolo)
2012
Il "Sacruma Regium Palatium" di Palermo rapppresenta nell'immaginario collettivo siciliano la testimonianza materiale più illustre dei fasti della corona d'Altavilla e in particolare dell'età ruggeriana: non a caso ancora oggi il complesso prende il nome di "Palazzo dei Normanni". Come è noto, tuttavia, il complesso ha una storia millenaria, che con lo snodarsi dei secoli ha conosciuto vicende alterne e momenti di decadimento. Questo libro è dedicato alla "rinascenza" del palazzo, cioè a quella fase del suo iter architettonico in cui, dopo due secoli di abbandono, torna a ricoprie il suo ruolo istituzionale di sede dell'autorità monarchica in Sicilia. La decisione presa da nel 1553 dal vice…
Dal rilievo alla ricostruzione del progetto: la torre Pisana nel Palazzo Reale di Palermo
2017
The paper focuses the survey and representation of the Pisana Tower in the Royal Palace of Palermo. The tower, which has recently been inserted in the UNESCO World Heritage List, was built in the XII century under the patronage of Norman kings. Along the centuries, the tower has undergone several transformations, to fit ever-changing uses. The coexistence of such heterogeneous elements, combined with the fragmentation of the passages connecting the levels of the tower, conceal the original unity and the typology of this historical building. Researches focusing the study of monuments deeply transformed along their history, even when based on the cooperation of multidisciplinary scholarships,…
IL VICERÉ GARÇIA DE TOLEDO E I CANTIERI REALI. UN LOGGIATO “ALLA GENOVESE” PER PALERMO
2014
The State Archive of Genoa keeps one of the few drawings related to the reconfiguration projects of the Royal Palace of Palermo in modern age. It's a pen drawing, partly in watercolor, depicting partially the front and the pavement of a long open gallery to be realized in the new eastern façade of the palace; the plan is attached to the contract, signed March 14th 1567 in Genoa, where the sculptors Giacomo Guidetti and Antonio Carabio were commissioned to supply all the necessary marbles and floor surfaces to realize the loggia.
Dalla Paleapolis alla piazza della Vittoria: il piano del Palazzo Reale di Palermo in età moderna
2020
A partire dalla metà del XVI secolo, con l’avvio della riconfigurazione dell’antica reggia normanna di Palermo, tutta l’area fu interessata da radicali interventi architettonici e urbanistici sfociati infine nella realizzazione del grande piano del palazzo. Luogo privilegiato dell’attività istituzionale e celebrativa della monarchia, testimoniata da una ricca documentazione iconografica, si mantenne così inalterato fino alla sua ‘cancellazione’ di inizio Novecento, quando fu sostituito dalla villa Bonanno. From the mid-16th century, when the works for the rearrangement of the old Norman royal palace of Palermo started, the whole area was affected by radical architectural and urban intervent…
"II –Il monastero benedettino", in Bonacasa Carra RM, Schirò G, Vitale E, Manenti M, "Il Monastero benedettino di Monreale. Dati storico-archeologici…
2016
In the Norman hunting park dominating the Conca d'Oro, in the second half of the XII century the monumental complex of Monreale began as a rational unitary body, consisting of the royal palace, the Duomo and the Benedictine convent which, from 1176, housed hundred Cluniac monks of Cava de 'Tirreni, called here by King William II; a wall, originally equipped with twelve towers, protected the religious community from possible external attacks. The goal of the founder was the creation of a strong instrument for the Christianization of western Sicily - still predominantly Muslim -, and at the same time of a prestigious dynastic mausoleum, in the explicit intent to rival all previous sacred impe…