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- Title
Dalla celebrazione del casato al mito di Enea e all'interpretazione etica della storia universale: un percorso iconografico tra le gallerie genovesi.
- Authors
Stagno, Laura
- Abstract
The first gallery in the Republic of Genoa was built and decorated by order of Giovanni Andrea Doria (1594). The "Galleria Aurea" was part of Prince Doria's attempt to distinguish himself, through the scale and character of his patronage, from the other Genoese aristocrats. The iconographic choices - both for the plastic decoration, entrusted to Marcello Sparzo, and for the planned painted scenes, for which Giovanni Andrea tried to engage one of the Carracci and possibly Caravaggio - aimed at the direct celebration of the Doria. Maria Spinola also chose her family's glories - embodied by the military triumphs of the great Amborgio - as theme for the decoration of the gallery she had built in 1635. Later on, iconographic preferences shifted to myth, with an important focus, in the 1650s, on the story of Aeneas, illustrated by G.B. Carlone in Palazzo Ayrolo Negrone's gallery. Around 1725, on the magnificent "Galleria degli Specchi"'s vault in Palazzo Durazzo, Domenico Parodi staged a complex discourse based on a moral reading of the great empires' fall in the course of antiquity, caused by their rulers' vices, as opposed to the eternity of Christian virtues and of the Durazzo family.
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018, p449
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1923