46 research outputs found
Compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environmental agreements, (Co-author Ulrich Beyerlin)
No full textThe Figure of the Limit: Metalepsis
No full textIn 1972, Gérard Genette introduced in narratology the figure of metalepsis, that is «any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse». In other words, metalepsis is a transgression of narrative levels, a perturbation of hierarchy that raises the question of the porosity of boundaries between diegetic and metadiegetic, author and reader, fact and fiction.
In my presentation, I will show how this phenomenon is ubiquitous nowadays, and how it is settled both in highbrow and lowbrow cultural representations across various media.
Furthermore, I wish I can discuss the role of metalepsis in poetics: in my opinion, it is possible to relate this device with the history of the novel. In XVIII and XIX centuries authorial narrators made extensive use of rhetoric metalepsis for humoristic purposes (such as playing with the story-time and the discourse-time) or to exhibit their authority (through the manipulation of different threads of the narration). With Naturalism and Modernism metalepsis disappeared, according to the poetic of impersonality: authors stopped being intrusive and eclipsed behind their characters. The golden era of the figure came in the temper of Postmodernism, where ontological metalepsis flourished and the public got used to author and reader literary entering the fiction or characters exiting from it and chitchatting with their creators
The frescoes of the Novalesa abbey complex, from restoration to preventive conservation through non-destructive diagnostics
No full textThe work presented shows the initial results of an interdisciplinary project focusing on actions necessary for the implementation of strategic maintenance plans to achieve preventive conservation of heritage systems.
Started in May 2021, the project aims to assess and tune strategies for the prevention and mitigation of degradation phenomena affecting four historical buildings belonging to the architectonical site of the Novalesa abbey (Turin), with a particular focus on its medieval frescoes. It involves different professional actors (restorers, architects, conservation diagnostic scientists, and art historians) as well as the area's inhabitants.
Based on the results of studies conducted over time on the wall paintings in the Chapel of St. Eldradus, one of the most important examples of Romanesque art in north-western Italy, the work methodology was extended to other areas of the monastery complex in need of attention. The apse of the church, the Chapels of St. Michael and the aforementioned St. Eldradus, and finally the so-called 'Camera Stellata' are now the subject of research in terms of the correlation between environmental conditions and the deterioration of the wall paintings, through the use of scientific nDT techniques and various types of analysis.
The project deployed a system to collect the needed knowledge while managing the operations related to the preventive conservation plan (as i.e. salt extraction, local consolidation, etc.) and it is tended to be an asset supporting the project according to ICCROM and ICOMOS. Furthermore, the project is committed to involve the communities through dissemination initiatives.
The Novalesa project was activated in the framework of PRIMA initiative funded by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, having also the financial support of Città Metropolitana di Torino and Benedettini Congregation. The project operates under the supervising of the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino
Andrea e gli argentieri Memingher in Sicilia
No full textAndrea Memingher è una tra le più enigmatiche figure di argentieri attivi a Palermo nella seconda metà del XVII secolo. Si può ritenere che la famiglia avesse origini nordiche e che, dopo un passaggio a Napoli, si stabilisse definitivamente a Palermo, inserendosi nella maestranza degli orafi e argentieri della città, probabilmente grazie ad un matrimonio con una figlia o una sorella o una vedova di un membro palermitano della maestranza. La presenza di Paolo Memingher nel capoluogo siciliano è attestata già nel 1660, due anni prima della data di inizio della sua attività, protrattasi fino al 1678. Il più importante esponente della famiglia fu Andrea, figlio di Paolo, il quale dovette la sua fama, al di là dell’abilità e dell’origine straniera, anche al suo status di padre gesuita. Il saggio studia la figura dell’artista, attivo dal 1670 al 1738, anno di morte, autore di un consistente corpus di opere giunto fino a noi, e dei congiunti che operarono nel medesimo contesto.Andrea Memingher is one of the most enigmatic figures of silversmiths active in Palermo in the second half of the seventeenth century. It can be assumed that the family had Nordic origins and that, after a passage to Naples, it settled permanently in Palermo, entering the mastery of the goldsmiths and silversmiths of the city, probably thanks to a marriage with a daughter or a sister or a widow of a Palermitan member of the mastery. The presence of Paolo Memingher in the Sicilian capital is attested as early as 1660, two years before the start of his activity, which lasted until 1678. The most important exponent of the family was Andrea, son of Paolo, who owed his fame, beyond the ability and foreign origin, even to his status as a Jesuit father. The essay studies the figure of the artist, active since 1670 to 1738, the year of his death, author of a substantial body of works that has come to us, and of the relatives who worked in the same context
LA CONSERVAZIONE DELL’ARCO DI AUGUSTO DI AOSTA: RESTAURO, DOCUMENTAZIONE BIM E RISCOPERTA STORICA DI UN UNICUM LAPIDEO
No full textThe restoration of the Arch of Augustus in Aosta, promoted by the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta, represents an exemplary intervention that combines conservation, scientific investigation and digital innovation. The objective of the work is to preserve and enhance one of the most significant monuments of Alpine Roman times, built in honor of Augusto Imperator to celebrate the Roman victory over Salassi, and which over the centuries has become a symbol of the city's identity. The project documentation was organised with a BIM (Building Information Modelling), which allows integration between 3 D surveys, degradation mapping, diagnostic steps, interventions. This model guarantees complete traceability of restoration interventions, and constitutes a digital archive, which can be updated and functional for scheduled maintenance over time. The BIM model, developed in collaboration with the University of Brescia, included orthophotos, environmental data, structural and historical analyses, integrating them into a single accessible and interoperable information ecosystem. At the same time, historical research has experienced significant acceleration: archival analysis has led to the chronological systematization of previous interventions, from medieval times to today, with contributions from figures such as Promis, D'Andrade, Schiaparelli The stratigraphic reading of the changes – from the disappearance of the attic and inscriptions to the remakes with artificial puddinga – has become an active part of the historical narrative of the monument. Research is also continuing through new diagnostic technologies, CFD environmental modelling and microclimatic assessments, which offer an evolving image of the relationship between the monument and environment. Finally, the intervention proposes a replicable model of restoration in the Alpine context, capable of combining historical knowledge, material protection and technological innovation in a very hard climatic context
Critical and Analytical Approaches in a Contemporary Mural Painting Retouching Process: the Key Study Murals by Antonio Carena
Get PDF[EN] This paper focuses on critical and analytical approaches behind the reintegration process in the conservation project of two contemporary mural paintings designed by Antonio Carena and located in the outdoor contemporary museum of Piscina in Italy. Moreover, there will be evaluated materials and techniques applied, in this selected case study, where contemporary criteria on chromatic reintegration, still connected to a case by case situation, confirm that the aesthetic presentation of a work of art is the phase of the restoration in which the exquisitely critical nature of the intervention is best expressed, since it implies a scientific plan at the basis and the objective critical judgment of the operator which is called to interpret some formal, visual and historical values of the work of art, acting on them. Finally, there will be analysed theoretical and technical methodologies to explain how scientific criteria, which are also objective and based on the visual perception of colour by the human psyche and its consequent aesthetic elaboration, passes through a scientific-critique interpretation of the constituent materials in the work of art.Mezzadri, P.; Valentini, F.; Capua, M. (2023). Critical and Analytical Approaches in a Contemporary Mural Painting Retouching Process: the Key Study Murals by Antonio Carena. En 6th International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage, RECH6. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 25-33. https://doi.org/10.4995/RECH6.2021.13580OCS253
La Vita S. Rosaliae di van Dyck nella Biblioteca della Fondazione Sicilia
No full textThe essay examines the Vita S. Rosaliae, a very rare collection of engravings taken from drawings by Antoon van Dyck, identified by the author and Maria Concetta Di Natale in the Sicily Foundation Library during preparatory research for the realisation of the exhibition 'The Ecstasies of Saint Rosalie - Antoon van Dyck, Pietro Novelli, Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano'
Experimental Investigations of Heat Transport Dynamics in a 1d Porous Medium Column
Get PDFAbstractThe present study involves the experimental investigation of heat transport due to the forced convective flow through a thermally isolated porous medium column.The experiments regard the observation of thermal breakthrough curves obtained through a hot flow injection in correspondence of two thermocouples positioned along a thermally isolated column of porous medium. The experiment has been carried out for three flow rates in order to investigate the critical issues regarding heat transport phenomena such as the relationship between the thermal dispersion with the flow velocity and the validity of the local thermal equilibrium assumption between the fluid and solid phase
Una scrittura della memoria. Le prose e i versi di Maria Attanasio
Get PDFMaria Attanasio (born in 1943) is an author of novels, stories, poetic collections, essays
and a photographic book illustrated by the shots of Giuseppe Leone, a refined iconotesto
whose subtitle reveals a clear Sciascian inspiration: Il divino e il meraviglioso. Feste religiose in Sicilia. The work of Attanasio, who published with Sellerio short novels such as Correva l’anno 1698 e nella città avvenne il fatto memorabile, Di Concetta e le sue donne and Il falsario di Caltagirone, is in some ways close to the formula of the Sciascian “cronachette”, which the writer has renamed “little chronicles” (“piccole cronache”). In her novels and in her verses the problems of memory, of archives, of documents and therefore of re-writing are central
Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the ovary
No full textOnly one case of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the ovary has been reported so far. A new case is herein illustrated in a 69-year-old woman: an ovarian mass adherent to urinary bladder dome with peritoneal carcinomatosis. Histologically, undifferentiated carcinomatous areas were intermingled with abundant lymphoid tissue. Epstein-Barr virus has not been detected either in neoplastic or in lymphoid cells. © The Author(s) 2011
