Viaggiatori danesi: tra scoperte archeologiche e dibattiti sulla policromia nei primi decenni del XIX secolo
- Autores: Monica Esposito
- Localización: LEXICON: Storie e Architettura in Sicilia, ISSN-e 1827-3416, ISSN 1827-3416, Nº. 38, 2024
- Idioma: italiano
- Títulos paralelos:
- Danish travellers: between archaeological discoveries and debates on polychromy in the early decades of the 19th century
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Resumen
In the first decades of the 19th century, the famous Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen had the opportunity in his atelier in Rome to work on and measure himself against the great works of the archaic age on the island of Aegina, hosting travellers and Danish and European intellectuals in Rome who took part in successful expeditions, first to the Hellas and then to Sicily.
From the reinterpretation and translation of the correspondence between Thorvaldsen and leading European architects, and from the drawings preserved in the archives of the Thorvaldsens Museum and the Danmarks Kunstbibliotek in Copenhagen, and then from the re-reading of the contemporary bibliography defending polychromy, among others those of the Danish archaeologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted, and from Thorvaldsen’s own artistic production and collaboration, the hypothesis that the architects and rchaeologists defending the definition of a new aesthetic vision gravitated around the Danish sculptor's Roman atelier is emerging. A vision in which all arts coexist and in which colour plays a central role in architectural creation.
Therefore, we would like to emphasise that the research following the rediscovery of traces of colour on the remains of the archaic Greek period and the debates on the hypothesis of reconstruction of the oldest of the Greek temples in Sicily, namely that of Jupiter at Girgenti, are not only strongly supported by Thorvaldsen, but that he influences architects in their design choices throughout the old continent.
