Abstract
The Palladian villa Maser encloses in its interior an important cycle of frescoes painted in 1560 by Paolo Veronese. Conforming to the balance of space and light that characterizes the villa, painted architecture dialogues with real environments for amplifying it in an illusionistic way. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between the large vestibule of the house – the so called Crociera Room – and its frescoed surfaces: in particular, through geometric analysis of two pictorial fields it has been identified the perspective construction used by Veronese to revolutionize the physical space of the room. Although in each examined architectural side it has been registered the overlap of several perspective structures, the many transgressions to rules do not compromise the illusory scene because in the work realized by the painter, the virtual space integrates the real one simulating the existance of an unique space. The results the operations of perspective inversion, conducted in this study, allowed to organically reconstruct the architecture imagined by the artist.
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Acknowledgment
The research was partly financed with the F.R.A. 2015 fund (Fondo di Ricerca di Ateneo) of the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Trieste, titled ‘Inverse Perspective and Interactive Communication of Painted Architectures on Curved Surfaces’ directed by Alberto Sdegno. In detail Sects. 1 and 6 were written by Alberto Sdegno, Sects. 4 and 5 were by Veronica Riavis, Sects. 2 and 3 are written by all the authors together. All the drawings are by Veronica Riavis with the supervision of Silvia Masserano. The authors want to thank the contess Diamante Luling Buschetti for giving the opportunity to access and analyze in detail the interior spaces for this research and all the staff of the Villa Barbaro a Maser for their kindness in giving the technical support.
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Sdegno, A., Masserano, S., Riavis, V. (2018). The Crociera Room of Villa Barbaro in Maser. Perspective Restitution of Architectural Frescoes. In: Amoruso, G. (eds) Putting Tradition into Practice: Heritage, Place and Design. INTBAU 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57937-5_33
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