I disegni di Rosario Gagliardi conservati presso il Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo
- Autori: Nobile Rosario
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2020
- Tipologia: Monografia
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/543378
Abstract
The Department of Architecture of Palermo keeps some drawings related to the activity of one of the greatest architects to have worked in Sicily in the eighteenth century: Rosario Gagliardi (Syracuse, ca. 1690-Noto, 1762). The importance of the small corpus - coming from a collection already constituted in the 18th century (the Mazza Collection) - is also linked to the fact that the drawings include famous edifices of Sicilian Baroque architecture: from the cathedral of San Giorgio in Ragusa to the churches of Santa Chiara and San Domenico in Noto. The thorough examination of the drawings offers the opportunity for a more general reflection on the characteristics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Sicily. An overall picture emerges where the methods and techniques that guide representation become a distinctive tool and take on a decisive role within his professional career.