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dc.identifier	ECF_article_14533
dc.title	«La ferrovia e il telegrafo muteranno le sorti del mondo». I progetti per gli affreschi della prima stazione di Genova di Francesco Gandolfi (1860)
dc.contributor.author	Frascarolo Valentina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/mdccc-1800/2023/1/la-ferrovia-e-il-telegrafo-muteranno-le-sorti-del/
dc.description.abstract	The drawings preserved in the collection of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe di Palazzo Rosso in Genoa include three sketches concerning the involvement of Francesco Gandolfi (1824‐73) in the pictorial decoration of Genoa’s first railway station between 1859 and 1860. Except for the medallion under the entrance porch, these frescoes have been considered lost since the early Twentieth century. This research is grounded in the stylistic and cultural homogeneity that these drawings express, as well as in the remarkable evidence they provide about an iconographic scheme intended for a novel public space in the Nineteenth‐century city. The aim of this paper is also to outline the artistic and social environment of Genoa at the time when it became the first commercial centre of the Kingdom.
dc.relation.ispartof	MDCCC 1800
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 12 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-04
dc.dateAccepted	2023-05-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-20
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-8841
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/MDCCC/2280-8841/2023/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Drawing
dc.subject	Francesco Gandolfi
dc.subject	Genoa
dc.subject	Historicism
dc.subject	Pictorial decoration
dc.subject	Railway station

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«La ferrovia e il telegrafo muteranno le sorti del mondo»

I progetti per gli affreschi della prima stazione di Genova di Francesco Gandolfi (1860)

Valentina Frascarolo Ricercatrice indipendente

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abstract

The drawings preserved in the collection of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe di Palazzo Rosso in Genoa include three sketches concerning the involvement of Francesco Gandolfi (1824‐73) in the pictorial decoration of Genoa’s first railway station between 1859 and 1860. Except for the medallion under the entrance porch, these frescoes have been considered lost since the early Twentieth century. This research is grounded in the stylistic and cultural homogeneity that these drawings express, as well as in the remarkable evidence they provide about an iconographic scheme intended for a novel public space in the Nineteenth‐century city. The aim of this paper is also to outline the artistic and social environment of Genoa at the time when it became the first commercial centre of the Kingdom.

Published

Dec. 4, 2023

Accepted

May 3, 2023

Submitted

March 20, 2023

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Keywords: Drawing • Genoa • Railway station • Historicism • Francesco Gandolfi • Pictorial decoration

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