Portali quattrocenteschi a lecce. Cronologia, modelli, contaminazioni

• Oronzo Brunetti ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Parma

     University of Parma

     Parma, Italia

     
• Localización: LEXICON: Storie e Architettura in Sicilia, ISSN-e 1827-3416, ISSN 1827-3416, Nº. Extra 2, 2021, págs. 377-386
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Main Portals of 15th Century Leccese Palaces. Chronology Models Contaminations In the first half of the 15th century, Lecce was a thriving city ruled by Countess Maria d’Enghien, wife of Raimondo Orsini del Balzo Prince of Taranto, the most powerful feudal lord of the Kingdom of Naples. At that time, Lecce had reached the size and shape then con- firmed by the walls of the 16th century; inside were four convents, a hospital, the cathedral, the castle, the place where the comital court remained, and numerous residences of the city’s élite. In this historical and social context, the type of portal derived from the Penne palace was imported from Naples. The type of portal (wrongly defined “durazzesco-catalano”) spread throughout southern Italy but in Lecce the model changed taking on its own and innovative characteristics; the new scheme was successful and widespread on the facades of the palaces of the aristocracy.

    In the first part, the essay aims to define the methods and reasons why the Neapolitan model turned into the ‘portale alla leccese’; in the second part, the study follows the spread of the scheme in the city residences, the sixteenth-century mutations, and the appearance in the residences of the feudal villages.