Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 4:30 p.m. (Archives and Historical Collection Room, Architecture Library - Palazzo San Clemente)
talk with Giuseppina Carla Romby, Daniela Smalzi, Chiara Martelli, Anna Claudia Palmieri
Program
- Giulia Pili - Technology Library - Architecture, UNIFI, Opening greetings
- Giuseppina Carla Romby - UNIFI, Wonderful stories and nostalgia for the ancient. The painted and graffitied facades in the palaces of Florence
- Daniela Smalzi - UNIFI, The architectural site of Palazzo Antella, research and perspectives in light of a recent dissertation
- Chiara Martelli and Anna Claudia Palmieri present the book Il Palazzo dell'Antella in Piazza Santa Croce a Florence: storia, famiglie e vicende costruttive dal Quattrocento a oggi, (history, families and building vicissitudes from the 15th century to the present), Florence, Mandragora, 2022
The stories painted facades tell
Architectural walks in the Santa Croce neighborhood
with Giuseppina Carla Romby
Thursday, November 3, 2022 (meeting at 3:30 p.m. in front of Palazzo Antella)
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 (meeting at 3:30 p.m. in front of Palazzo Antella)
The itinerary winds among buildings made between the 15th and 17th centuries, testifying to the long-lasting pictorial decoration of facades and varied graphic and coloristic solutions.
Itinerary details: Palazzo Antella (Piazza S. Croce, 21) - Palazzo Spinelli (Borgo S. Croce, 10) - Palazzo Bardi alle Grazie (Via de' Benci, 5) - Palazzo Mellini Fossi (Via de' Benci, 20) - Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo (Borgo degli Albizzi, 26)
* Reservations required. Write to eventibibarc@sba.unifi.it.
The initiatives are organized within the cycle of meetings The Archi-stories of the Library The Archi-stories are born as a tie and recognition to Luca De Silva's teaching and activity, and they want to represent its ideal continuation.
In large aristocratic and patrician residences, as well as in the palaces of the wealthy Florentine bourgeoisie built between the 15th and 17th centuries, it is not common to find facades with pictorial and graffiti decorations, as opposed to the more widespread use of ashlar and plaster walls with sandstone (pietra serena or macigno) profiles and cornices. However, while suggesting some attention to economic investment, the pictorial and graffiti decoration also provides significant indications of the cultural-artistic updating of the patrons as well as the makers and artists engaged in creating an architectural/urban scene of renewed figural qualities.
The Florence in Color event series aims to help the city rediscover an exceptional artistic heritage, hidden and little-studied though highly visible: the painted facades of the buildings in Florence's historic center.
