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Criteri museologici per il MUCEB
No full textThe essay traces the museological criteria followed by the author for the layout of the Museum of Ceramics in Burgio
Le miracle de la nature et de l’art - Palermo barocca nel diario di viaggio di Albert Jouvin de Rochefort
No full textThe date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort’s journey, recounted in his Voyage d’Italie et de Malthe, in 1672, places him among the authors who were at the forefront of the Grand Tour phenomenon, which experienced its golden age between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the following century. Palermo was the first stop on his journey to Sicily and Jouvin was fascinated by it. The closeness of the author to the baroque aesthetic is widely reflected in Palermo not only in the main monuments of the city, but in the entire urban layout, conceived as a Theatre of the World, in which coexist, in a multitude of monumental and decorative solutions, the fundamental social and cultural landmarks of the population: the Saints object of devotion, the monarchs, the allegories of natural elements, the pagan deities. From the author’s narration emerges the image of the city as a symbolic and narrative machine, which contributes to the definition of a strong and coherent collective identity, aware of the role of Palermo in the Mediterranean and already, in many ways, multicultural
Sicily's Prime - Il viaggio nelle Arti Decorative siciliane di Emily Nevill Jackson
No full text“A student in Sicily” by Emily Nevill Jackson, published in 1926, represents the first real general survey of Sicilian Decorative Arts. In it, the author describes in detail works, typologies, materials, techniques and collections with a meticulousness and precision that would only be fully reflected and scientifically formulated in later studies. After reconstructing the figure of the scholar, the book examines Jackson's text on the works of Decorative Arts, contextualising it with the most recent scientific studies on the works themselves
Una nuova acquisizione iconografica per la ricostruzione della tribuna di Antonello Gagini nella Cattedrale di Palermo
No full textLa recente digitalizzazione di un dipinto di anonimo siciliano nelle collezioni del Museo de Historia di Madrid e il suo inserimento nei database del patrimonio culturale spagnolo ed europeo ha consentito di riportare all’attenzione della comunità scientifica un’importante raffigurazione pittorica della tribuna di Antonello Gagini nella Cattedrale di Palermo. Dopo avere ripercorso le principali fonti documentarie ed iconografiche relative alla tribuna, viene qui presentata l’opera oggi a Madrid, che fornisce un prezioso riscontro alle fonti fin qui note
Monreale negli sguardi del Grand Tour tra opere, testi e immagini
No full textI viaggiatori stranieri che tra XVIII e XIX secolo visitarono Monreale la descrissero accuratamente, sia dal punto di vista artistico che da quello paesaggistico. Particolarmente interessanti sono le testimonianze relative alle Arti Decorative allora custodite nel Duomo, oggetto di studi recenti sulle Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori stranieri in Sicilia tra XVII e XIX secolo. Con questi studi si è posta in continuità la mostra Monreale negli sguardi del Grand Tour - Opere e luoghi tra immagini dei viaggiatori stranieri e committenza degli Arcivescovi, allestita presso la Sala San Placido del Museo Diocesano dal 7 settembre 2022 al 6 gennaio 2023.The foreign travellers who visited Monreale between the 18th and 19th centuries described it accurately, both artistically and for its landscape. Of particular interest are the descriptions of the Decorative Arts then housed in the Cathedral, the subject of recent studies on Sicilian Decorative Arts in the diaries of foreign travellers to Sicily between the 17th and 19th centuries. The exhibition Monreale in the Eyes of the Grand Tour - Works and Places between Images of Foreign Travellers and Commissioning by Archbishops, held in the Sala San Placido of the Diocesan Museum from 7 September 2022 to 6 January 2023, is in continuity with these studies
La singolarità delle Arti Decorative trapanesi nei diari del Grand Tour
No full textThe article examines the testimonies of foreign travellers to Sicily between the 18th and 19th centuries that highlight the peculiarities of Trapani's decorative arts
La letteratura artistica siciliana nei diari dei viaggiatori francesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo
No full textThe publication of the travel diaries of Johann Hermann von Riedesel in 1771 and Patrick Brydone in 1773 determined the inclusion of Sicily among the canonical stations of the Grand Tour itinerary. Among the foreigners who arrived in large numbers on the island between the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century and published accounts of their journeys, French authors stood out, referring to an idea of Europe as a common space that had gradually established itself from the end of the 16th century until the 18th. Thanks to these authors, the assimilation of the Sicilian cultural reality, and of the artistic one in particular, not only took the form of visiting places and directly observing works and monuments, but also of consulting Sicilian authors who, for various reasons, had dealt in their works with local artists and their production
Jeanne Villepreux-Power e il collezionismo siciliano nella prima metà del XIX secolo
No full textEven today, the figure of Jeanne Villepreux-Power is remembered by the international scientific community mainly for her pioneering studies in the field of marine biology. Even more singular and valuable therefore, appears to be Power's contribution to studies on sources relating collecting in Sicily in the 19th century, for which her ‘Guide to Sicily’ constitutes an important point of reference, both for the quantity of collections recorded by the author, and for the accurate descriptions of the works contained therein, which help to paint a particularly effective picture of the main
orientations and the taste that animated the collectors of the time
«Un complesso riunito dalla casualità, selezionato da una sorte perfida»: Maria Accascina e l’allestimento delle opere salvate dal terremoto del 1908 nel Museo Nazionale di Messina
No full textNel 1949 venne affidata a Maria Accascina la direzione del Museo Nazionale di Messina, incarico che ricoprirà fino al 1963. Il riordinamento delle opere che la studiosa trovò sparse tra l'ex filanda Mellinghoff e la spianata all'esterno fu un'impresa titanica per la quantità e l'eterogeneità dei materiali, che venne portata a termine in tempi relativamente brevi (il nuovo allestimento venne inaugurato il 6 giugno del 1954). Nell'azione di riordino ebbero un ruolo particolarmente importante le opere sopravvissute al terremoto del 1908, che, pur nella sua tragicità, come nota la stessa Accascina a proposito delle collezioni del Museo, “causò una improvvisa crescita del patrimonio artistico perché ebbe l’aggiunta di quanto si riusciva a salvare in tutta Messina”. L’opera di Maria Accascina riprese il lavoro “encomiabile” realizzato da Enrico Mauceri fino al 1926, interrompendo così il vuoto più che ventennale successivo ad esso e proiettando il Museo di Messina in una dimensione europea.In 1949, Maria Accascina was appointed director of the National Museum of Messina, a role she held until 1963. The reorganization of the works that the scholar found scattered between the former Mellinghoff spinning mill and the esplanade outside was a titanic undertaking due to the quantity and heterogeneity of the materials, which was completed in a relatively short time (the new layout was inaugurated on 6 June 1954). The works that had survived the earthquake of 1908 played a particularly important role in the reorganisation, which, despite its tragic nature, as Accascina herself notes with regard to the Museum's collections, "caused a sudden increase in the artistic heritage because it was added to what could be saved throughout Messina". Maria Accascina's work took over the 'commendable' work carried out by Enrico Mauceri until 1926, interrupting the more than twenty-year vacuum that followed and projecting the Messina Museum into a European dimension
Beauty and Splendour - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori inglesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo
No full textScientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th and 19th centuries on the Sicilian Decorative Arts
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