IL MONUMENTO AI CADUTI DI ACQUASPARTA NELL’ESTETICA DELLA NUOVA 'CITTA’ TERMALE’ (original) (raw)

L’EDIFICIO DI CULTO: DA PARROCCHIALE A CHIESA DI CITTÀ

SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE A GUARDIAGRELE. LA VICENDA MEDIEVALE, 2004

From the fourteenth century, the collegiate church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Guardiagrele is the architectural and artistic center of this southern city of Abruzzo. It was rebuilted during the late medieval urban enlargement and its slow evolution followed the historical development of the town. Under the rule of Giovanni Orsini, the sanctuary was provided with a tower in the front and with a sopraelevetad choir. When the local universitas transformed the status of the building in “chiesa di città”, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the portal was reconstructed. In that period Guardiagrele gave hostitality to Teutonic artists, who carved the sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin in the lunette.

UN MASCHERONE DA FONTANA IN MARMO AL MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO DI ACQUI TERME

Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte, 2001

bocca da fontana in marmo configurata a testa maschile che rappresenta una delle più recenti ed interessanti acquisizioni operate dall'istituzione acquese 1 (tav. X, a). Il reperto proviene dalla collezione della famiglia Scovazzi ed è stato donato, insieme ad altri materiali, alla Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte che lo ha destinato alla esposizione museale locale 2 • Non si possiedono purtroppo, come spesso avviene in questi casi, notizie di nessun genere circa la sua precisa provenienza -che pare comunque certo essere cittadina -né tantomeno sul contesto originario di appartenza del pezzo e sulle modalità e le circostanze del suo rinvenimento. La mancanza di tali dati costituisce, con ogni evidenza, un grave ed insormontabile ostacolo al corretto inquadramento del reperto ed alla sua esatta collocazione nel quadro della produzione artistica locale.

I TUFI ZEOLITIZZATI NELL'ARCHITETTURA DELLA CAMPANIA

The architecture of Campania region, as many other Italian areas, is characterized by a widespread use of local stones as building materials. In the past, these stones have been deeply investigated from a genetic and compositional point of view, but little is known about their petrophysical features as well as their behaviour towards the decay agents. This lack of information does not allow an accurate choice of the most proper procedures to follow in case of restoration of important architectural pieces of work necessary to guarantee a long lasting life. In this frame the research aims at widening the knowledge on the zeolitized tuffs used in the architecture of Campania, the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff and the yellow facies of the Campanian Ignimbrite, in order to provide a contribution for a better comprehension from a mineralogical and petrophysical point of view and to evaluate their transformations induced by interaction with the surrounding environment.

IL SOFFITTO IN STUCCO DELL’OECUS TETRASTILUS DELLA COSIDDETTA CASA DI AUGUSTO

In the winter of 2008-2009 we were invited by the Soprintendenza di Roma to document the stucco fragments found in 1973 in the Oecus tetrastilus of the western peristyle of the so-called house of Augustus by Gianfilippo Carettoni, which are believed to have belonged to a vaulted ceiling. Contrary to previous suppositions, this new documentation-basis made it possible to identify various compositions and digitally reconstruct parts of the ceiling. The aim of this paper is to present first results of this reconstruction and to determine their historical context in ancient architecture.