Il volto pittorico della Roma tardo antica e medievale, raramente è giunto a noi intatto; più spesso si mostra frammentato o nascosto o perduto. E tuttavia di questo patrimonio, moltissime sono ancora le tracce visibili sulle pareti di chiese e monumenti della città o i brani di dipinti e mosaici staccati che si conservano nei musei e nei loro depositi. Nel caso di contesti pittorici perduti talora ne sopravvive la memoria visiva, grazie a copie antiche (acquarelli, disegni, incisioni) e fotografie storiche.
L'Atlante, di cui si presenta qui il Primo Volume, ricrea i nessi, anche se perduti, fra le pitture murali e il loro originario assetto all'interno degli edifici, presentando una serie di percorsi visivi sulla base di planimetrie e modelli digitali 3D. Si tratta di ricostruzioni grafiche studiate per far emergere mosaici e pitture in contesti architettonici compromessi o meno, ricollocare virtualmente i dipinti staccati, raccontare i palinsesti pittorici "sfogliandoli", visualizzare le decorazioni ormai perdute, ma documentate.
Opera scientifica ma di accesso anche ad un pubblico vasto per la inusitata ricchezza di immagini, è frutto della collaborazione tra Jaca Book e l'Università della Tuscia.
LA SERIE:The goal of the Corpus and Atlante research project is to offer both a comprehensive listing and an extensive study of all existing medieval wall paintings, mosaics and icons, many of which still adorn several sacred monuments in Rome.
Completed in 2006, the first phase of the project will lead to the publication of two volumes of Corpus (Volume 1: IV-V c.; Volume 4: XI-XII c.) and one volume of Atlante (Volume 1) dedicated to the study of thirty-two historical monuments as pictorial contexts, all located outside the city limits of Rome, in the suburbs, inside the Vatican and in the Monti district.
La pittura medievale a Roma is an ambitious project that will track every sign and evidence of the pictorial heritage in Rome throughout the centuries. The complete series will consist of six volumes of Corpus and three volumes of Atlante.
The goal of the Corpus and Atlante research project is to offer both a comprehensive listing and an extensive study of all existing medieval wall paintings, mosaics and icons, many of which still adorn several sacred monuments in Rome. But the project also tracks every sign and evidence of this pictorial heritage throughout the centuries and its imprint on Western history and collective memory. Surprisingly enough, watercolours, drawings, copies, antique photographs, descriptions, all contribute to our better knowledge of medieval painting in Rome, whether the original work of art is lost or an early copy shows, for example, various states of preservation, or (now) invisible restoration, thus documenting a so-called 'critical account' of a monument and its wall covering.
There are two main reasons to this project. On the one hand, a desire to write - rewrite - the history of painting in Rome. This is the task assigned to the Corpus volumes with their plausible chronological listing and analytical study of every single artwork that we know, or merely know of - the first such large-scale critical inventory ever attempted. On the other hand, a desire to go beyond the mere rewriting of the history of painting and offer a new approach to structuring and sharing the newly-gained information. In the Atlante approach, therefore, it is not chronology but contextual accuracy that matters: the paintings, mosaics, icons and copies of lost works of art are presented in their original context, i.e. on the walls of the sacred monuments of Rome. State-of-the-art digital technology, planimetry and 3D make the impossible come true as frescoes unfold anew on their original supports and the various decorative stages of a particular monument are made visible - and simultaneously, as the case may be - to visitors as they follow a 3D visit.
OTROS TÍTULOS DE LA SERIE.
CORPUS 6 VOLS:
Volume I.
L'orizzonte tardoantico e le nuove immagini 312-468./ Maria Andaloro. Febrero2007
Volume II.
Roma e Bisanzio 468-795 En preparación
Volume III.
Prima e dopo il mille 795-1050 En preparación
Volume IV.
Riforma e Tradizione 1050-1198 / Serena Romano. febrero de 2007
Volume V.
Il Duecento e la cultura gotica 1198-1288 En preparación
Volume VI.
Apogeo e fi ne del Medioevo 1288-1431 En preparación
Volume V.
Il Duecento e la cultura gotica 1198-1288 En preparación
Volume VI.
Apogeo e fi ne del Medioevo 1288-1431 En preparación
ATLANTE 3 VOLS
Volume I.
La pittura medievale a Roma 312-1431, Atlante, Percorsi visivi. Volume I: Suburbio, Vaticano, Rione Monti, Vaticano.Febrero 2007
Volume II.
Rioni Trevi, Colonna, Campo Marzio, Ponte, Parione, Regola, Pigna, Campitelli, San Angelo . En preparación
Volume III.
Rioni Ripa, Trastevere, Esquilino, Sallustiano, Celio, San Saba. En preparación
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