L’Abbé de Saint-Non protagonista nel Voyage en Italie e regista del Voyage pittoresque: osservazioni da artista

Enzo Bentivoglio

doi:10.14633/AHR076

The Abbé de Saint-Non, Protagonist in the Voyage en Italie and Director of the Voyage pittoresque: Artist’s Observations

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Enzo Bentivoglio Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR076

Keywords:

Picturesque, Saint-Non, Observations

Abstract

The evocative presence of the term pittoresque in the frontispiece of the Voyage would seem to explain the whole reason for the “expedition” of artists sent by Saint-Non to the South of Italy; However, at the same time, we feel the need to accompany and soften the weight of that term by adding the specification, ou description – taken as almost synonymous with pittoresque – as if to clarify that the work does not contain a predominance of graphic and descriptive expressions exclusively anchored to those aesthetic values already for some time “codified”.
We have to immerse ourselves in reading the Journal ou Nottece (sic) on a Voyage fait en Italie 1759-1760 written by Saint-Non to discover the profound meaning he attributed to this term, using it with extreme parsimony, in comparison to other terms used a lot more frequently.

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2019-07-01

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Bentivoglio, E. (2019). The Abbé de Saint-Non, Protagonist in the Voyage en Italie and Director of the Voyage pittoresque: Artist’s Observations. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, 3(10), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR076

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ArcHistor (Extra n. 3): Voyage pittoresque I . Explorations in Southern Italy on the Trail of the Saint-Non Expedition

Section

Part I - Journey in the Picturesque

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