A European View on Ruins in Naples and Messina during the 17th and 18th Centuries
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Iconografia urbana, Grand Tour, Napoli, Messina, filosofia della catastrofeAbstract
An analysis of iconography and a critical reading of sources allow to add new observations on the representation of cities in territories affected by the 1783 earthquake. The contribution aims to illustrate a slow cultural mutation and the symbolic, figurative meanings of this phenomenon. The philosophy of catastrophe puts the then prevailing optimism of reason into crisis and destroys the conviction that the present may be the best of all possible worlds. The Kingdom of Naples was one of the protagonists of that dynamism that pushed men to explore unusual territories along the Grand Tour route with the intent of acquiring new scientific tools of analysis. Southern Italy is a unique case in Europe due to the number of earthquakes during the modern age. In particular, the capital city, Naples, and Sicily were hit several times by earthquakes of varying intensity over a period from 1688 to 1783; that century was a fundamental passage in the history of earthquakes.
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- Bibliografia (Italiano)
- Figura 1. Arcangelo Guglielmelli, facciata di San Paolo Maggiore prima e dopo il crollo del 1688 (da CELANO 1692, Giornata Seconda, p. 161). (Italiano)
- Figura 2. Francesco Cassiano de Silva, Veduta della Piazza di S. Lorenzo e Strada della Vicaria, fine XVII secolo. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. (Italiano)
- Figura 3. Francesco Cassiano de Silva, Conza (da PACICHELLI 1703, I, f. 304). (Italiano)
- Figura 4. Gaudiello, Veduta del largo antistante la chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, 1707, collezione privata. (Italiano)
- Figura 5. Pietro Fabris, Veduta di un fiume di lava sceso dal Vesuvio verso Resina la sera dell’11 maggio 1771 (da HAMILTON 1776, tav. XXXVIII). (Italiano)
- Figura 6. Johann Martin Will, Messina, eine von den Schoensen u. groesten Staedten Italiens ... am 5. Febr. 1783. (Italiano)
- Figura 7. Georg Balthasar Probst, Das erschröckliche erdbeben in Messina (Collection des Prospects 1785). (Italiano)
- Figura 8. Il Palazzo del Seminario in due vedute: Bernardino Rulli, Veduta della Palazzata di Messina rovinata dai Terremoti dei 5 Febraio 1783 (in alto); Pompeo Schiantarelli, Rilievo della Palazzata di Messina, 1784 (da ARICÒ 1988). (Italiano)
- Figura 9. Il Palazzo Reale in due vedute: Bernardino Rulli, Veduta della Palazzata di Messina rovinata dai Terremoti dei 5 Febraio 1783 (in alto); Pompeo Schiantarelli, Rilievo della Palazzata di Messina, 1784 (da ARICÒ 1988). (Italiano)
- Figura 10. Henry Tresham, La devastazione del terremoto di Messina, 1783. London, Tate Gallery, inv. n. T08265. (Italiano)
- Figura 11. Henry Tresham, Messina dopo il terremoto. Veduta dell’abside di una chiesa e una barca in porto, 1783. London, Tate Gallery, inv. n. T08264. (Italiano)
- Figura 12. Henry Tresham, Messina dopo il terremoto. La navata di una chiesa in rovina, 1783. London, Tate Gallery, inv. n. T08263. (Italiano)
- Figura 13. Jean Houel, Vue de la Palazzata de Messine, au moment du tremblement de terre (da HOUEL 1784, II, tav. LXXXVI). (Italiano)
- Figura 14. Jean Houel, Vue du Palais du Vice-Roy a Messine, au moment de sa destruction par le tremblement de terre (da HOUEL 1784, II, tav. LXXXVII). (Italiano)
- Figura 15. Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, Veduta di Messina dopo il terremoto del 1783, 1788-89. Losanna, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, inv. D-84-59. (Italiano)
- Figura 16. Luigi Mayer, Ruins occasioned in the earthquake at Messina (da Mayer 1810). (Italiano)
- Figura 17. Jakob Philipp Hackert, Prima veduta del Porto e Badia di Messina, presa dal Palazzo del Senato, 1791. Caserta, Palazzo Reale, inv. 2199. (Italiano)
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- Bibliografia (Italiano)
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2018-07-26
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Visone, M. (2018). A European View on Ruins in Naples and Messina during the 17th and 18th Centuries. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, (9), 68–107. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR065
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