Rappresentazione grafica e restauro alla metà dell’Ottocento. Dal rilievo en plain air alle ‘divinazioni’: un percorso verso il restauro stilistico

Renata Picone

doi:10.14633/AHR050

Visual representation and restoration in the middle of 19th century. From drawing en plein air to “divination”: a route toward the stylistic Restoration

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Renata Picone Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli

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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR050

Abstract

Around the middle of the 19th century, the expanding architectural historiography – fed by a group of intellectuals who ‘heroically’ started the classification of the infinite Italian heritage – began more and more frequently to adopt the Monge representation, in order to improve knowledge and awareness of architectural heritage, considered crucial in the construction of a common identity for the rising “New Italy”. The paper reconstructs the period in which visual representations – by that time the favourite instrument of knowledge for specialists and pensionnaires – influenced the perception of heritage: the specialists, in fact, gradually passed from drawing en plein air, to the more precise Monge on-scale representation, to the graphical reconstruction of a supposed original appearance of the building, “divination”, paving the way to the stylistic restoration developed by Eugéne Emmanuelle Viollet-le-Duc.

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2017-03-22

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Picone, R. (2017). Visual representation and restoration in the middle of 19th century. From drawing en plein air to “divination”: a route toward the stylistic Restoration. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, 1, 286–313. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR050

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ArcHistoR: (Extra n. 1) Viollet-le-Duc and Nineteenth-Century. Contributions on the fringe of a celebration (1814-2014)

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Part II - Viollet-le-Duc and Central and Southern Italy. Reflections on a cultural exchange

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