Verso sud. Bernard Berenson e il "Viaggio in Sicilia"

• Autores: Antonella Trotta
• Localización: Confronto: studi e ricerche di storia dell'arte europea, ISSN 1721-6745, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 198-208
• Idioma: italiano
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  • In 1955, Bernard Berenson published "Viaggio in Sicilia", a report regarding a laical pilgrimage among the occasions offered by the artistic heritage and the southern landscape. It is dedicated to the Italian readers, who at the time 'discovered' the American scholar as an author capable of experimenting eccentric genres beyond the specialized literature. The "Viaggio" was a path for both eyes and soul, traced in order to allow the South of Italy to return as part of the history, from which it was separated by the social-economical reasons of the 'questione meridionale', but not by the deep cultual reasons of art and monuments. From this point of view, it is related to the endless cultural landscapes, from the East to the West, from Rome to Greece, from the Middle East and the Holy Land to northern Africa, the travellers of the Grand Tour included in the concept of 'mediterranean humanism' even before the geo-historical models developed by the specialist. This concept is ambiguous and eurocentric, but according to Berenson it combines its contradictions in the universal language of the visual representation, which is seen as an eternal function of the human race.