Il volume nasce da uno studio condotto sulle opere trapanesi in corallo della collezione March, b... more Il volume nasce da uno studio condotto sulle opere trapanesi in corallo della collezione March, battute all''asta presso la sede londinese di Christie''s il 16 giugno 2015. Si tratta di esemplari di diversa tipologia, sia a carattere sacro che profano, che contribuiscono ad arricchire il catalogo della produzione trapanese in corallo tra XVI e XX secolo, attestandone ancora una volta l’eccezionalità nel contesto dell’area mediterranea e l’alto livello di esecuzione raggiunto da questi artisti. La preziosità di questi manufatti viene ulteriormente confermata dalla loro presenza in una prestigiosa collezione privata insieme ad esemplari di grande valore artistico come dipinti, sculture, arazzi, arredi ed opere d’arte decorativa ascrivibili alle principali produzioni europee di Età Moderna. Da questo punto di partenza l’autore ha quindi operato una ricerca delle opere trapanesi in corallo battute nelle aste internazionali a partire dagli inizi del XXI secolo, portando alla luce esemplari in larga maggioranza inediti, di cui non si era a conoscenza perché transitati sempre nel mercato privato dell’arte.
Gli autori ringraziano Don Alessandro Magno, Don Giuseppe Cardaci, il Sig. Vito Bonanno, la Dott.... more Gli autori ringraziano Don Alessandro Magno, Don Giuseppe Cardaci, il Sig. Vito Bonanno, la Dott.ssa Rosalia Francesca Margiotta, il Dott. Giovanni Travagliato, la Sig.ra Pina Napoli e il Sig. Massimo Lambusta. Un ringraziamento particolare va al Maestro Enzo Brai per l'alta qualità del corredo fotografico e per l'accurata progettazione grafica. Di Natale, Maria Concetta Ex elemosinis Ecclesiae et Terrae Regalbuti : il tesoro della Chiesa Madre / Maria Concetta Di Natale, Sergio Intorre ; premessa Banca di Credito cooperativo La Riscossa ; introduzione don Alessandro Magno ; fotografie Enzo Brai. -Bagheria : Plumelia, 2012. (Quaderni dell'Osservatorio per le Arti Decorative in Italia Maria Accascina) ISBN 978-88-89876-41-1 1. Oggetti sacri cristiani -Collezioni [della] Chiesa Madre <Regalbuto>. I. Intorre, Sergio <1972->. II. Brai, Vincenzo. 704.948209458124 CDD-22 SBN Pal0249670 CIP -Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace"
Las artes suntuarias al servicio del culto divino (XVI-XVIII), Roma, Universo Barroco Iberoamericano, 2024
La Virgen del Pilar siempre se ha aderezado con joyas y ricos textiles. Los inventarios más antig... more La Virgen del Pilar siempre se ha aderezado con joyas y ricos textiles. Los inventarios más antiguos de Santa María la Mayor ya recogen algunas piezas del tesoro, que debían servir para adornar las dos primitivas imágenes marianas que entonces se veneraban. Será en el transcurso de la Edad Moderna cuando se comience a alhajar a la imagen gótica que hoy nos ha llegado, cuyo ajuar se multiplicará exponencialmente a raíz de los milagros más conocidos obrados por la Virgen. El alhajamiento de la Virgen del Pilar cambiará sustancialmente desde la remodelación del camarín por Ventura Rodríguez (1750-1765). Esta contribución repasa los principales aderezos de la Virgen, desde 1255 a 2022, y ofrece como apéndice documental la transcripción correcta realizada por Ester Casorrán del primer inventario del templo, recientemente localizado.
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiqu... more The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the works in Trapani coral with sacred subjects exhibited in Florence, which constituted the main nucleus of the collection
Il volume analizza per la prima volta l'inedita collezione di suppellettili liturgiche della ... more Il volume analizza per la prima volta l'inedita collezione di suppellettili liturgiche della Chiesa Madre di Regalbuto. Si tratta di un ricco tesoro di argenti sacri realizzati da abili orafi e argentieri palermitani, catanesi e messinesi, attivi tra il XVI e il XIX secolo. Le opere vengono studiate e schedate analiticamente. Si propongono inoltre specifici criteri di musealizzazione dei manufatti
Scientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th... more Scientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th and 19th centuries on the Sicilian Decorative Arts
The diary of Antonio Desbrull y Bo\uedl De Arenos's trip to Sicily offers the possibility to ... more The diary of Antonio Desbrull y Bo\uedl De Arenos's trip to Sicily offers the possibility to observe directly the perception of the sacred art of the author, characterized by an enlightened cultural profile, but far from the neoclassical taste that is the fundamental trait common to many of the contemporary travelers. Desbrull's testimony also allows us to examine some of the main religious buildings on the island, the works contained therein and the architectural decoration, an expression of a baroque taste that strikes and fascinates the author. Sacred art is considered here as a mere aesthetic phenomenon, devoid of the spiritual dimension that lies at the basis of both the commissioning of the works and their realization
Osservatorio per le Arti Decorative in Italia, 2013
Il volume propone un'analisi delle principali metodologie di digitalizzazione dell'opera ... more Il volume propone un'analisi delle principali metodologie di digitalizzazione dell'opera d'arte, a fini di tutela e valorizzazione
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiqu... more The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the works in Trapani coral with sacred subjects exhibited in Florence, which constituted the main nucleus of the collection
Le opere raccolte in questo volume contribuiscono a rafforzare una tendenza storiografica che ha ... more Le opere raccolte in questo volume contribuiscono a rafforzare una tendenza storiografica che ha riscosso particolare interesse negli ultimi decenni. Si tratta degli studi sulla corte (reale o vicereale) e sulla dialettica tra gruppi di potere - come modo di definire ruoli, privilegi e cariche - la complessit\ue0 e le sfumature di un gruppo sociale per definizione eterogeneo e mutevole, sia a livello sincronico che diacronico. In questa prospettiva, le indagini condotte dagli autori che hanno contribuito all'elaborazione di questo volume hanno il merito di sottolineare l'importanza di evitare letture cristallizzate, costruito da analisi viziate dall'idea che i gruppi di potere erano definitivi, immutabili e compatti, cos\uec come i loro interessi e le loro strategie
Studio scientifico di opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Chr... more Studio scientifico di opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Christie's e Sotheby'
The essay examines the main citations of decorative works of art found in the journals of British... more The essay examines the main citations of decorative works of art found in the journals of British travelers of the Grand Tour between XVIII and XIX century. In the context of these works, the attention devoted to the decorative arts is much less than that devoted to archeology, painting or sculpture, both because the culture of the time did not consider them yet at the level of the so-called major arts, and because the authors often have little competence in the field of the artistic context. The antiquarian authors of travel reports, then, are clearly more interested in classical art than in that of later or contemporary times. Therefore the citations of the works of decorative art in the diaries of the Grand Tour are few in number and the collection of the main ones is the result of a targeted research within a vast literature, which is often attentive to aspects that have very little to do with these particular typologies. It is precisely the literary dimension that makes the diaries so fascinating, together with their intrinsic, undeniable historical value. The prose of the travelers, their style, which is influenced from time to time by their education, their profession and their cultural heritage, offers the reader a narrative space in which uses, customs, works of art, monuments, the entire social and cultural panorama of the period coexist. The end result is a series of descriptions sometimes synthetic and stringent, sometimes vivid and even lyrical, but full of suggestiveness and poetry
The essay analyses the testimonies of foreign travellers on the church of Santa Caterina al Cassa... more The essay analyses the testimonies of foreign travellers on the church of Santa Caterina al Cassaro in Palermo between the 18th and 19th centuries, contextualising them with the cultural and historical-artistic panorama of the time
The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort\u2019s journey, recounted in his Voyage d\u2019Italie et d... more The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort\u2019s journey, recounted in his Voyage d\u2019Italie et de Malthe, in 1672, places him among the authors who were at the forefront of the Grand Tour phenomenon, which experienced its golden age between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the following century. Palermo was the first stop on his journey to Sicily and Jouvin was fascinated by it. The closeness of the author to the baroque aesthetic is widely reflected in Palermo not only in the main monuments of the city, but in the entire urban layout, conceived as a Theatre of the World, in which coexist, in a multitude of monumental and decorative solutions, the fundamental social and cultural landmarks of the population: the Saints object of devotion, the monarchs, the allegories of natural elements, the pagan deities. From the author\u2019s narration emerges the image of the city as a symbolic and narrative machine, which contributes to the definition of a strong and coherent collective identity, aware of the role of Palermo in the Mediterranean and already, in many ways, multicultural
Il volume nasce da uno studio condotto sulle opere trapanesi in corallo della collezione March, b... more Il volume nasce da uno studio condotto sulle opere trapanesi in corallo della collezione March, battute all''asta presso la sede londinese di Christie''s il 16 giugno 2015. Si tratta di esemplari di diversa tipologia, sia a carattere sacro che profano, che contribuiscono ad arricchire il catalogo della produzione trapanese in corallo tra XVI e XX secolo, attestandone ancora una volta l’eccezionalità nel contesto dell’area mediterranea e l’alto livello di esecuzione raggiunto da questi artisti. La preziosità di questi manufatti viene ulteriormente confermata dalla loro presenza in una prestigiosa collezione privata insieme ad esemplari di grande valore artistico come dipinti, sculture, arazzi, arredi ed opere d’arte decorativa ascrivibili alle principali produzioni europee di Età Moderna. Da questo punto di partenza l’autore ha quindi operato una ricerca delle opere trapanesi in corallo battute nelle aste internazionali a partire dagli inizi del XXI secolo, portando alla luce esemplari in larga maggioranza inediti, di cui non si era a conoscenza perché transitati sempre nel mercato privato dell’arte.
Gli autori ringraziano Don Alessandro Magno, Don Giuseppe Cardaci, il Sig. Vito Bonanno, la Dott.... more Gli autori ringraziano Don Alessandro Magno, Don Giuseppe Cardaci, il Sig. Vito Bonanno, la Dott.ssa Rosalia Francesca Margiotta, il Dott. Giovanni Travagliato, la Sig.ra Pina Napoli e il Sig. Massimo Lambusta. Un ringraziamento particolare va al Maestro Enzo Brai per l'alta qualità del corredo fotografico e per l'accurata progettazione grafica. Di Natale, Maria Concetta Ex elemosinis Ecclesiae et Terrae Regalbuti : il tesoro della Chiesa Madre / Maria Concetta Di Natale, Sergio Intorre ; premessa Banca di Credito cooperativo La Riscossa ; introduzione don Alessandro Magno ; fotografie Enzo Brai. -Bagheria : Plumelia, 2012. (Quaderni dell'Osservatorio per le Arti Decorative in Italia Maria Accascina) ISBN 978-88-89876-41-1 1. Oggetti sacri cristiani -Collezioni [della] Chiesa Madre <Regalbuto>. I. Intorre, Sergio <1972->. II. Brai, Vincenzo. 704.948209458124 CDD-22 SBN Pal0249670 CIP -Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace"
Las artes suntuarias al servicio del culto divino (XVI-XVIII), Roma, Universo Barroco Iberoamericano, 2024
La Virgen del Pilar siempre se ha aderezado con joyas y ricos textiles. Los inventarios más antig... more La Virgen del Pilar siempre se ha aderezado con joyas y ricos textiles. Los inventarios más antiguos de Santa María la Mayor ya recogen algunas piezas del tesoro, que debían servir para adornar las dos primitivas imágenes marianas que entonces se veneraban. Será en el transcurso de la Edad Moderna cuando se comience a alhajar a la imagen gótica que hoy nos ha llegado, cuyo ajuar se multiplicará exponencialmente a raíz de los milagros más conocidos obrados por la Virgen. El alhajamiento de la Virgen del Pilar cambiará sustancialmente desde la remodelación del camarín por Ventura Rodríguez (1750-1765). Esta contribución repasa los principales aderezos de la Virgen, desde 1255 a 2022, y ofrece como apéndice documental la transcripción correcta realizada por Ester Casorrán del primer inventario del templo, recientemente localizado.
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiqu... more The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the works in Trapani coral with sacred subjects exhibited in Florence, which constituted the main nucleus of the collection
Il volume analizza per la prima volta l'inedita collezione di suppellettili liturgiche della ... more Il volume analizza per la prima volta l'inedita collezione di suppellettili liturgiche della Chiesa Madre di Regalbuto. Si tratta di un ricco tesoro di argenti sacri realizzati da abili orafi e argentieri palermitani, catanesi e messinesi, attivi tra il XVI e il XIX secolo. Le opere vengono studiate e schedate analiticamente. Si propongono inoltre specifici criteri di musealizzazione dei manufatti
Scientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th... more Scientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th and 19th centuries on the Sicilian Decorative Arts
The diary of Antonio Desbrull y Bo\uedl De Arenos's trip to Sicily offers the possibility to ... more The diary of Antonio Desbrull y Bo\uedl De Arenos's trip to Sicily offers the possibility to observe directly the perception of the sacred art of the author, characterized by an enlightened cultural profile, but far from the neoclassical taste that is the fundamental trait common to many of the contemporary travelers. Desbrull's testimony also allows us to examine some of the main religious buildings on the island, the works contained therein and the architectural decoration, an expression of a baroque taste that strikes and fascinates the author. Sacred art is considered here as a mere aesthetic phenomenon, devoid of the spiritual dimension that lies at the basis of both the commissioning of the works and their realization
Osservatorio per le Arti Decorative in Italia, 2013
Il volume propone un'analisi delle principali metodologie di digitalizzazione dell'opera ... more Il volume propone un'analisi delle principali metodologie di digitalizzazione dell'opera d'arte, a fini di tutela e valorizzazione
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiqu... more The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the works in Trapani coral with sacred subjects exhibited in Florence, which constituted the main nucleus of the collection
Le opere raccolte in questo volume contribuiscono a rafforzare una tendenza storiografica che ha ... more Le opere raccolte in questo volume contribuiscono a rafforzare una tendenza storiografica che ha riscosso particolare interesse negli ultimi decenni. Si tratta degli studi sulla corte (reale o vicereale) e sulla dialettica tra gruppi di potere - come modo di definire ruoli, privilegi e cariche - la complessit\ue0 e le sfumature di un gruppo sociale per definizione eterogeneo e mutevole, sia a livello sincronico che diacronico. In questa prospettiva, le indagini condotte dagli autori che hanno contribuito all'elaborazione di questo volume hanno il merito di sottolineare l'importanza di evitare letture cristallizzate, costruito da analisi viziate dall'idea che i gruppi di potere erano definitivi, immutabili e compatti, cos\uec come i loro interessi e le loro strategie
Studio scientifico di opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Chr... more Studio scientifico di opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Christie's e Sotheby'
The essay examines the main citations of decorative works of art found in the journals of British... more The essay examines the main citations of decorative works of art found in the journals of British travelers of the Grand Tour between XVIII and XIX century. In the context of these works, the attention devoted to the decorative arts is much less than that devoted to archeology, painting or sculpture, both because the culture of the time did not consider them yet at the level of the so-called major arts, and because the authors often have little competence in the field of the artistic context. The antiquarian authors of travel reports, then, are clearly more interested in classical art than in that of later or contemporary times. Therefore the citations of the works of decorative art in the diaries of the Grand Tour are few in number and the collection of the main ones is the result of a targeted research within a vast literature, which is often attentive to aspects that have very little to do with these particular typologies. It is precisely the literary dimension that makes the diaries so fascinating, together with their intrinsic, undeniable historical value. The prose of the travelers, their style, which is influenced from time to time by their education, their profession and their cultural heritage, offers the reader a narrative space in which uses, customs, works of art, monuments, the entire social and cultural panorama of the period coexist. The end result is a series of descriptions sometimes synthetic and stringent, sometimes vivid and even lyrical, but full of suggestiveness and poetry
The essay analyses the testimonies of foreign travellers on the church of Santa Caterina al Cassa... more The essay analyses the testimonies of foreign travellers on the church of Santa Caterina al Cassaro in Palermo between the 18th and 19th centuries, contextualising them with the cultural and historical-artistic panorama of the time
The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort\u2019s journey, recounted in his Voyage d\u2019Italie et d... more The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort\u2019s journey, recounted in his Voyage d\u2019Italie et de Malthe, in 1672, places him among the authors who were at the forefront of the Grand Tour phenomenon, which experienced its golden age between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the following century. Palermo was the first stop on his journey to Sicily and Jouvin was fascinated by it. The closeness of the author to the baroque aesthetic is widely reflected in Palermo not only in the main monuments of the city, but in the entire urban layout, conceived as a Theatre of the World, in which coexist, in a multitude of monumental and decorative solutions, the fundamental social and cultural landmarks of the population: the Saints object of devotion, the monarchs, the allegories of natural elements, the pagan deities. From the author\u2019s narration emerges the image of the city as a symbolic and narrative machine, which contributes to the definition of a strong and coherent collective identity, aware of the role of Palermo in the Mediterranean and already, in many ways, multicultural
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiqu... more The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the works in Trapani coral with sacred subjects exhibited in Florence, which constituted the main nucleus of the collection
This volume constitutes the second stage of a research project which, through a detailed study of... more This volume constitutes the second stage of a research project which, through a detailed study of the accounts of foreign travellers who arrived in Sicily between the 17th and 19th centuries, has identified descriptions of the Sicilian decorative arts seen during their itineraries. After having published the results of the research on the diaries of English travellers in the volume Beauty and Splendour - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori inglesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo, the results of the scientific research on the diaries of French travellers are presented here
Presentation of the book "Poder y privilegio en la sociedad moderna - Actores, medios, fines... more Presentation of the book "Poder y privilegio en la sociedad moderna - Actores, medios, fines y circunstancias - Siglos XVI-XVIII
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