"Libro Fabbrica in Brescia a S.ta Croce": il cantiere neoclassico dei nobili Chizzola a palazzo Averoldi (1788-1791)

• Autores: Giuseppe Merlo
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 103, 2012, págs. 48-63
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Between 1788 and 1791, a wing of the sixteenth-century Palazzo degli Averoldi "a Santa Croce" in Brescia, was the subject of radical restoration, both architectural and decorative, sponsored by the brothers Faustino and Giuseppe Chizzola, who were now its owners by inheritance. A rediscovered "Libro Fabbrica" enables us to follow the phases of this major Neoclassical project in Brescia, and identify those involved in its execution. Thanks to the accounting record, which pushes the date of the decoration of the Sala di Amore e Psiche back to 1791, we can clarify the debut in Brescia of one of the most prominent local Neoclassical painters, Giuseppe Teosa. A reading of the "Libro" casts light on the decoration of the salone, offering more precise information on its chronology and authors and providing the names of the executive architect and a group of upright artisans who worked together, each according to his ability, towards the successful outcome of this enterprise.