During the Modern Age Siena was characterized by important ceremonial and festive activities for many events that marked the city’s history. There were numerous occasions to organize backdrops to religious, political and festive events. The occasions included canonization of Saints, entries of Popes, emperors, cardinals, archbishops, princes and governors, wedding or funeral of leading figures as well as traditional festivities like Carnival. The common aptitude of Tuscan people to organize celebrations shows a flair for changing celebrations of political and cultural importance, soon as instrumenta regni. Many urban pathways, in particular the main streets and the government buildings, such as Piazza del Campo and the Cathedral were reconfigured with ephemeral structures realized by Siena artists who completely transformed these urban areas. Engravings, drawings, reports and little printed books record these events which illustrated the iconographic and ceremonial program of the diverse celebrations. Through these instruments it is possible to reconstruct the pathways and protagonists, to identify the continuity and the differences of the ceremonial apparatus in occasion of religious and civil events in a city marked by a radical municipal tradition of a medieval matrix that was to remain vital over the course of time.
Un’intensa attività cerimoniale e festiva si registra a Siena in età moderna, in occasione di eventi che hanno segnato la storia della città: dalla canonizzazione di santi, agli ingressi di papi, imperatori, arcivescovi, principi regnanti e governatori. L’’attitudine dei toscani ad allestire festeggiamenti si conferma nel tempo come una tradizione consolidata e strumento per esprimere la consapevolezza del significato attribuito alle celebrazioni quali instrumenta regni. In tali occasioni settori significativi della trama urbana sono riconfigurati con allestimenti dalla spiccata ispirazione classica, acquisendo un’immagine estranea alla tradizione urbana di matrice medievale. L’analisi della memoria di avvenimenti significativi, trasmessa da incisioni, disegni, dipinti, relazioni, che ne illustrano il programma iconografico e cerimoniale, consente di verificare gli strumenti messi in campo per la celebrazione della città che si rappresenta, nei quali si possono intuire tentativi di sperimentazione per una possibile rivisitazione dei suoi luoghi più rappresentativi.
Entrate trionfali e apparati effimeri a Siena in età moderna. La rappresentazione della città e l’immagine rivisitata dei suoi luoghi simbolo / Mussari, Bruno. - (2014), pp. 1588-1598. (Intervento presentato al convegno AISU 2013 tenutosi a Catania nel 12-14 settembre 2013).
Entrate trionfali e apparati effimeri a Siena in età moderna. La rappresentazione della città e l’immagine rivisitata dei suoi luoghi simbolo
MUSSARI, Bruno
2014-01-01
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During the Modern Age Siena was characterized by important ceremonial and festive activities for many events that marked the city’s history. There were numerous occasions to organize backdrops to religious, political and festive events. The occasions included canonization of Saints, entries of Popes, emperors, cardinals, archbishops, princes and governors, wedding or funeral of leading figures as well as traditional festivities like Carnival. The common aptitude of Tuscan people to organize celebrations shows a flair for changing celebrations of political and cultural importance, soon as instrumenta regni. Many urban pathways, in particular the main streets and the government buildings, such as Piazza del Campo and the Cathedral were reconfigured with ephemeral structures realized by Siena artists who completely transformed these urban areas. Engravings, drawings, reports and little printed books record these events which illustrated the iconographic and ceremonial program of the diverse celebrations. Through these instruments it is possible to reconstruct the pathways and protagonists, to identify the continuity and the differences of the ceremonial apparatus in occasion of religious and civil events in a city marked by a radical municipal tradition of a medieval matrix that was to remain vital over the course of time.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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