La Calabria e il viaggio alla ricerca de La Grande Grèce nel Voyage pittoresque dell’abate di Saint-Non

Bruno Mussari

doi:10.14633/AHR083

Calabria and a Journey in Search of La Grande Grèce in the Voyage Picturesque of the Abbot of Saint-Non

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Bruno Mussari Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR083

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Vivant-Denon, Saint-Non, Calabria

Abstract

The result of a revision process on the part of the publisher of Voyage Picturesque, regarding the original drawings and texts produced by participants of the expedition, is a collection of views of cities, landscapes and architecture of Calabria, which were prepared during the expedition organized in 1778 by the Abbot of Saint-Non and led by Dominique Vivant- Denon. A comparison of the Voyage with the original travel diary of Vivant-Denon, published in another edition, and with a series of sketches and preparatory drawings by Louis-Jean Desprez and Claude-Louis Châtelet, offers the opportunity to verify how those unexplored and largely unknown places were perceived and then interpreted, through the filter of the "brave" travelers who crossed Calabria at the end of the 18th century and, eventually, to also verify how those same places are still recognizable in their original structures.

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2019-07-01

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Mussari, B. (2019). Calabria and a Journey in Search of La Grande Grèce in the Voyage Picturesque of the Abbot of Saint-Non. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, 3(10), 358–377. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR083

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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 IV - Calabria

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