The scientific paper is focused on decorations painted by Felice Giani in the villa of Antonio Aldini at Montmorency, near Paris, from November 1812 to the Summer of the following year. Aldini was Secretary of State of Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and Treasurer of the Order of the Iron Crown: his villa was destroyed in 1818, today there are only drawings to document Giani’s work. A new sheet allows to reconstruct better the sequence of rooms in the building. This graphic sketch displays inscriptions: it dates back to January 1813 and refers to the ceiling of the principal hall in villa Aldini. The central oculus depicts Apollo’s chariot, an iconographic theme developed in the same format in a Giani’s drawing of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. In the latter sheet the signs of the zodiac behind the sun god correspond to the date of birth of Antonio Aldini.
Felice Giani a Montmorency: un nuovo disegno e qualche riflessione
LUCCHESE E
2016
Abstract
The scientific paper is focused on decorations painted by Felice Giani in the villa of Antonio Aldini at Montmorency, near Paris, from November 1812 to the Summer of the following year. Aldini was Secretary of State of Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and Treasurer of the Order of the Iron Crown: his villa was destroyed in 1818, today there are only drawings to document Giani’s work. A new sheet allows to reconstruct better the sequence of rooms in the building. This graphic sketch displays inscriptions: it dates back to January 1813 and refers to the ceiling of the principal hall in villa Aldini. The central oculus depicts Apollo’s chariot, an iconographic theme developed in the same format in a Giani’s drawing of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. In the latter sheet the signs of the zodiac behind the sun god correspond to the date of birth of Antonio Aldini.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
