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I soffitti lignei del palazzo di Cosimo dei Medici a Milano e alcuni esempi di diffusione dei lacunari all’antica in Lombardia
Get PDFThe remains of the house owned by Cosimo Medici in Milan – a building given by Francesco Sforza to the Medicis in 1455 and reconstructed to become the office of the Medici Bank in the city – does not permit to undestand the rich presence of wooden ceilings. The description by Filarete and some 19th century sources, before the complete transformation of the house, show us an image of the coffered ceiling of the main room on the first floor, and the carpentry used for arcades and loggias in the courtyard.The decoration of the wooden ceiling of the main room seems to have been very well known in Milan during the second half of the 15th century, which explains why Galeazzo Maria Sforza wanted the wooden ceiling of his own chapel in the church of St. Celso in 1473 with coffers similar to those of two important models, the Medici bank and the chapel of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence.The essay illustrates the sources concerning the wooden ceilings of the Medici bank and some examples of their diffusion in Lombardy during the second half of the 15th century
Soffitti figurati nelle chiese di Roma
Get PDFThe late-renaissance and baroque churches of Rome frequently show coffered wooden ceilings with relief figures of saints. The essay focuses on those plastic figurations, linking them with both the outcomes of the Council of Trent concerning the catechistic use of images and the new religiosity propagated by the Counter-Reformation. Among those ceilings the essay investigates the one at San Lorenzo in Damaso (1587), dismantled in the nineteenth century, which depicts in bas-relief the glory of the Martyr and some episodes of his life. Before the ceiling of San Lorenzo, this type of figuration was limited to symbolic, iconic and laconic elements, eloquent but not dramatic, as in the magnificent ceilings of San Giovanni in Laterano and, in part, of the Ara Coeli, both executed by the famous French lignarius Flaminio Boulanger
“Un sol di paradiso”. I soffitti all’antica di palazzo Medici a Firenze
Get PDFThis paper clarifies the historical constructive aspects of two 15th century wooden ceilings of the Medici palace (later Riccardi): the ceiling of the great hall and that of the Magi chapel. An hitherto unknown documentation from the Archive of the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore, establishes the dating of timber works in the building yard (January 1449 - February 1451), and explains the methods of supply, origins and quantities of the wood purchased by Cosimo the Elder for the palace. The two ceilings are among the first coffered ceilings carved the "ancient" way. Their novelty consists in the shape but also in the use of double composite beams to support the coffers: this technical device was so new in Florence at the period that it required the shipment of a wooden model of a beam (1451) from Ferrara. Finally, the study explains how the restoration and consolidation of the great hall ceiling throughout the centuries has completely transformed the original structure: the works carried out by the Riccardi family (1660) more than halved the size of the ceiling, and gave it a different pictorial decoration, now entirely removed after the recent pictorial restoration (1998) aimed at restoring the Fifteenth Century aspect to the ceiling
Pierre Musitelli, Le flambeau et les ombres. Alessandro Verri, des Lumières à la Restauration (1741-1816)
Get PDFL’ombra di Spinoza nei Balcani del Settecento. Il caso della Vera Felicità di Athanasios Psalidas
Get PDFThis article deals with the spread of Spinoza’s thought in the Eighteenth century Balkans with special regards to Psalidas’ True Happiness. Psalidas’ book presents the first translation of some key parts of Spinoza's Ethics in the context of a theist approach. The analysis presents the hermeneutic comprehension of this document bearing in mind Israel’s interpretation of the Enlightenment and the debate of Greek scholars about Psalidas. The final aim is to furnish a first view on the reception of the Ethics in the Balkans and on how this reception influenced the structure of a seminal work such as True Happiness
Migración e identidad: una experiencia desde la ilegalidad
Get PDFThe article addresses the life experience of a Mexican immigrant family after twenty years living in the United States illegaly. The information is recorded from the father’s testimony. The interview technique was used from a phenomenological approach that allows us to analyze the relationship between identity, culture and territory as related factors. The results highlight the existence of an emerging identity in which individuals transform the way they perceive themselves, others and the world around them, as a result of interactions in a disadvantaged social position. The need for a migration policy that guarantees the human rights of immigrants is pointed out
Pre-teachers training in digital competence: a workshop experience on coding
Get PDFThis essay deals with a training experience for the Degree Course on Primary Education Sciences (Scienze della Formazione Primaria), at the University of Perugia. Fifth year students have been given a laboratory about coding and computational thinking, in a mixed methodology made of the face-to-face and online forms. This is also in relation to actions 17 and 27 of the National Plan for the Digital School. Results of the assessment activities taken in the laboratory are hereby presented. They show a good level of teaching-design competence of the students about coding.Formazione dei futuri insegnanti alla competenza digitale: un’esperienza laboratoriale sul codingIn questo saggio viene presentata un’esperienza di formazione realizzata presso l’Università degli Studi di Perugia, nel Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formazione Primaria. Per gli studenti del quinto anno è stato proposto un laboratorio, in modalità integrata in presenza e online, sul coding e il pensiero computazionale, in riferimento anche a quanto previsto dal Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale (PNSD), alle azioni 17 e 27. Sono presentati i dati risultanti dagli strumenti di monitoraggio utilizzati per le diverse attività proposte nel laboratorio, dai quali si evince la conquista da parte degli studenti di una buona competenza didattico-progettuale rispetto al coding
A territory of our own
Get PDFEver since we first came across it, art has allowed us to see a sight enriched with the impression of entering a territory of our own. From its very beginning, art is the visible expression of the passages between images, the making visible of its own laws, its analogies and affinities. Walter Benjamin already shed light on the “auratic” value of such transformations, and while he is known for stating that photography causes a degradation of the aura, it is no less true, though less known, that that loss is redeemed by the aura photography carries in itself. Image’s secret, its potency and splendour, lies precisely in that distance between image and thing, between word and thing. In photography – as a medium inheriting water’s and mirror’s powers of reflection – the leaning over one’s own reflection (the Greeks called it Narcissus) is ‘magically’ reinstated