Journal | MDCCC 1800
Journal issue | 12 | 2023
Research Article | «La ferrovia e il telegrafo muteranno le sorti del mondo»
«La ferrovia e il telegrafo muteranno le sorti del mondo»
I progetti per gli affreschi della prima stazione di Genova di Francesco Gandolfi (1860)
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.
Submitted: March 20, 2023 | Accepted: May 3, 2023 | Published Dec. 4, 2023 | Language: it
Keywords Genoa • Drawing • Railway station • Pictorial decoration • Historicism • Francesco Gandolfi
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/MDCCC/2280-8841/2023/01/002
