Veduta del Teatro di Egesta
| Reference: | S43098 |
| Author | Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duca di Serradifalco |
| Year: | 1843 |
| Zone: | Agrigento |
| Measures: | 500 x 370 mm |
€300.00
| Reference: | S43098 |
| Author | Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duca di Serradifalco |
| Year: | 1843 |
| Zone: | Agrigento |
| Measures: | 500 x 370 mm |
€300.00
Description
Magnificent and rare lithographic view taken from the Vedute Pittoriche degli Antichi Monumenti della Sicilia su' Disegni del Duca di Serradifalco, an important collection on the main archaeological sites in Sicily printed in Palermo by Tipografia di B. Virzi in 1843.
The great views, on designs of Domenico the Faso Pietrasanta, Duke of Serradifalco, are lithographed on stone from Wenzel and impressed from the Litografia Militare of Naples.
Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, the last Duke of Serradifalco (Palermo, 1783 - Florence, 1863), soon moved to Milan where he studied architecture, literature and archeology. An education that was not only cultural but also political as in Milan attended the liberal and Jacobin circles. Back in Sicily he devoted himself to an intense activity of archaeological research in the main archaeological sites in Sicily: Taormina, Selinunte, Agrigento, Segesta. Numerous studies and drawings made by him during the excavation campaigns testify to his commitment as a scholar and architect.
From 1828, and until the year of his exile, Lo Faso was a member of the Central Commission responsible for the protection of antiquities of the Kingdom of Sicily. Together with the other commissioners (Giuseppe Lanza, Rosario Torregrossa, Valerio Villareale and Giuseppe Patania), guaranteed systematic campaigns of excavations and restorations carried out in major archaeological sites. Attentive to the scientific nature of the surveys, he entrusted the measurements to Domenico and Francesco Saverio Cavallari, both often engaged in the drafting of projects "invented" by the same Lo Faso and collected for a volume of architecture remained unpublished and incomplete.
The volume Pictorial views of the ancient monuments of Sicily on drawings of the Duke of Serradifalco, published in Palermo in 1843 shows not only his technical preparation but also the influence on him exercised by the romantic culture and models of representation of classical antiquities developed and used in the contemporary representations of foreign travelers in Sicily.
Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duca di Serradifalco (Palermo 1783 - Firenze 1863)
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Literate, architect, scholar of archeology and Sicilian architecture, wrote several works on ancient and medieval monuments of Sicily. He studied architecture and archeology in Milan. Student of Luigi Cagnola, from him develops a deep interest in Palladian architecture and antiquities. All this will characterize his research and his work even towards neoclassical styles. At the death of his father in 1809 he received the investiture of the titles and all the possessions, including the family palace in Piazza Pretoria in Palermo, of which he oversaw the restoration, now Palazzo Bonocore, where it is still visible, in the facade, the coat of arms of the Duchy of Serradifalco. As an architect he realized few works in Palermo, among them, the Teatrino della Musica at the Foro Borbonico (today Foro Italico) in collaboration with Carlo Giachery and the Olivuzza park with the two buildings.
He was appointed president of the Commission of Antiquities and Fine Arts and was called by the Savoy to the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. Perform excavations and restorations in major archaeological sites in Sicily: Segesta, Selinunte, Agrigento, Syracuse, Taormina and all published extensive reports accompanied by tables with reliefs and representations of high level still useful. He directed the work "The antiquities of Sicily exposed and illustrated", in several volumes, published and printed in Palermo between 1834 and 1842.
After the return of the Bourbons in Sicily, had to go into exile in Florence as a political exile anti-Bourbon and independentist. He died in Florence on February 15 1863. His ashes rest in the monument dedicated to him in the Church of San Domenico in Palermo (Pantheon of the illustrious Sicilians). He left as heir his daughter Giulietta, who was the Marchioness of Torrearsa as the wife of Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version). He was the director of the work "The Antiquities of Sicily Described and Illustrated" (Palermo 1835-42).
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Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duca di Serradifalco (Palermo 1783 - Firenze 1863)
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Literate, architect, scholar of archeology and Sicilian architecture, wrote several works on ancient and medieval monuments of Sicily. He studied architecture and archeology in Milan. Student of Luigi Cagnola, from him develops a deep interest in Palladian architecture and antiquities. All this will characterize his research and his work even towards neoclassical styles. At the death of his father in 1809 he received the investiture of the titles and all the possessions, including the family palace in Piazza Pretoria in Palermo, of which he oversaw the restoration, now Palazzo Bonocore, where it is still visible, in the facade, the coat of arms of the Duchy of Serradifalco. As an architect he realized few works in Palermo, among them, the Teatrino della Musica at the Foro Borbonico (today Foro Italico) in collaboration with Carlo Giachery and the Olivuzza park with the two buildings.
He was appointed president of the Commission of Antiquities and Fine Arts and was called by the Savoy to the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. Perform excavations and restorations in major archaeological sites in Sicily: Segesta, Selinunte, Agrigento, Syracuse, Taormina and all published extensive reports accompanied by tables with reliefs and representations of high level still useful. He directed the work "The antiquities of Sicily exposed and illustrated", in several volumes, published and printed in Palermo between 1834 and 1842.
After the return of the Bourbons in Sicily, had to go into exile in Florence as a political exile anti-Bourbon and independentist. He died in Florence on February 15 1863. His ashes rest in the monument dedicated to him in the Church of San Domenico in Palermo (Pantheon of the illustrious Sicilians). He left as heir his daughter Giulietta, who was the Marchioness of Torrearsa as the wife of Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version). He was the director of the work "The Antiquities of Sicily Described and Illustrated" (Palermo 1835-42).
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