The ideal image of Calabria that the Saint-Non expedition hoped to find was that handed down by the classics, with archaeological remains capable of reconnecting myth to reality. On arriving in the various locations, however, these expectations found a very different situation, and the drawings had no choice but to adapt to it. Yet, unexpectedly, it was precisely from the loss of the ancient image that the new one emerged. This was composed of wild lands and inhabited centers, picturesquely perched on the cliffs or on the inland rocks. It was this new Calabria that was presented to Europe, through an original iconography, which owed nothing to the designers of the past. A part of the image codified in the Voyage was maintained until relativ...
La storia della Calabria è una storia lunga – molto più lunga di quanto qualunque essere umano possa...
In 1544 the Provencal priest Jérome Maurand traveled on French galleys following the Ottoman fleet c...
Some preparatory sketches depicting the Marquisate of Crotone – drawn by members of the expedition o...
The rediscovered interest in southern Italy characterizing the 18th and 19th centuries coincided wit...
The result of a revision process on the part of the publisher of Voyage Picturesque, regarding the o...
The urban and territorial representation of the Kingdom of Naples mediated by the Voyage Pittoresque...
Looking at the degraded natural landscape, as it appears today crossing the South of Italy, and espe...
Reggio Calabria today, as with the entire area of the Strait of Messina involved in the recent proje...
The view of Catanzaro, the old capital of Calabria Ultra and now the regional capital, contained in ...
A particular interpretative key of the characteristics of Calabria in the eyes of travellers of the ...
At the beginning of the 18th century, there was a new interest in the knowledge and representation o...
The monumental, encyclopaedic production by the abbot of Saint-Non on the South of Italy is probably...
In the last decade, many investigations and studies have appeared on Renaissance style architectural...
In the 18th century, the Posillipo coast seemed far from the splendor of the previous century, when ...
The first concrete initiative aimed to remove Calabria from its secular isolation was the constructi...
La storia della Calabria è una storia lunga – molto più lunga di quanto qualunque essere umano possa...
In 1544 the Provencal priest Jérome Maurand traveled on French galleys following the Ottoman fleet c...
Some preparatory sketches depicting the Marquisate of Crotone – drawn by members of the expedition o...
The rediscovered interest in southern Italy characterizing the 18th and 19th centuries coincided wit...
The result of a revision process on the part of the publisher of Voyage Picturesque, regarding the o...
The urban and territorial representation of the Kingdom of Naples mediated by the Voyage Pittoresque...
Looking at the degraded natural landscape, as it appears today crossing the South of Italy, and espe...
Reggio Calabria today, as with the entire area of the Strait of Messina involved in the recent proje...
The view of Catanzaro, the old capital of Calabria Ultra and now the regional capital, contained in ...
A particular interpretative key of the characteristics of Calabria in the eyes of travellers of the ...
At the beginning of the 18th century, there was a new interest in the knowledge and representation o...
The monumental, encyclopaedic production by the abbot of Saint-Non on the South of Italy is probably...
In the last decade, many investigations and studies have appeared on Renaissance style architectural...
In the 18th century, the Posillipo coast seemed far from the splendor of the previous century, when ...
The first concrete initiative aimed to remove Calabria from its secular isolation was the constructi...
La storia della Calabria è una storia lunga – molto più lunga di quanto qualunque essere umano possa...
In 1544 the Provencal priest Jérome Maurand traveled on French galleys following the Ottoman fleet c...
Some preparatory sketches depicting the Marquisate of Crotone – drawn by members of the expedition o...