Il Voyage pittoresque in Puglia e Basilicata: i tempi, le tappe, i temi

Vita Basile; Mario Cazzato; Vincenzo Cazzato

doi:10.14633/AHR081

The Voyage pittoresque in Puglia and Basilicata: the Times, the Stages and the Topics

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Vita Basile
Mario Cazzato
Vincenzo Cazzato Università Salento

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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR081

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Puglia and Basilicata, Dominique Vivant Denon, Voyage pittoresque

Abstract

Arriving in Puglia in April 1778, the members of the Saint-Non expedition, guided by Dominique Vivant Denon, were aware of starting the most adventurous and unpredictable part of their mission in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily in search of the testimonies of the ancient glory of the Grande Grèce.
In fact, unlike what happened to Naples and Campania, for most of the other territories of the Kingdom it meant building an unprecedented iconographic repertoire, starting from Puglia and Basilicata. The drawings, made by the artists following Denon and faithfully transposed into engraving in the Voyage pittoresque, fulfilled this task.
But the diary written by Denon, greatly reduced and reworked by Saint-Non, could not express its full documentary expression, until it was published by his friend Benjamin de Laborde in the form of notes to the French edition of Travels in the Two Sicilies by Henry Swinburne (1785-1787).
It is this version of Denon's diary, revisited by the author and never reprinted in an autonomous form, that forms the guiding thread of the first part of this contribution dedicated to the times and stages of Voyage, while the second part mainly follows the version of Saint-Non to describe all the illustrations of the volumes, including those of the sites of Apulia and Lucania, here, for the first time, systematically reconsidered from the thematic point of view.

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2019-07-01

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Basile, V., Cazzato, M., & Cazzato, V. (2019). The Voyage pittoresque in Puglia and Basilicata: the Times, the Stages and the Topics. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, 3(10), 216–329. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR081

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

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Part III - Puglia and Basilicata

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