Journal | MDCCC 1800
Journal issue | 7 | 2018
Research Article | Between the Parrasie vocali selve, e le rupi Menalie
Between the Parrasie vocali selve, e le rupi Menalie
The Pictorial Cycle of the Arcadian Room in Perugia
Abstract
In 1820 in Perugia was inaugurated the sala arcadica della Colonia Augusta painted by Giovanni Monotti and Carlo Cencioni. The room, still preserved, was used as headquarters of Arcadians’ winter meetings and is a rare example of decoration directly inspired by the themes of the Arcadian Academy. A number of significant references to Arcadian traditions and rituals handed down by custom and by the writings of the Academy are discernible in the landscapes and in the ornamentations of the cycle of paintings. These paintings are also an important step in a long process that testifies an emerging taste for stanze a boschereccia and late Neoclassic landscape in Papal States as a way to affirm a shared cultural and artistic language.
Submitted: March 22, 2018 | Accepted: May 9, 2018 | Published July 31, 2018 | Language: it
Keywords Academy of Arcadia • Mural painting • Stanze a boschereccia • Arcadian Iconography • Papal states
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/MDCCC/2280-8841/2018/01/004
