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@PHDTHESIS{Helmenstein:445001,
author = {Helmenstein, Caroline},
othercontributors = {Pieper, Jan},
title = {{H}olzgesimse der {R}enaissance in {I}talien und {S}panien
: {U}ntersuchung zu {H}erkunft und {B}augeschichte des
{H}olzgesimses am {P}alazzo del {G}iardino in {S}abbioneta},
address = {Aachen},
publisher = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University},
reportid = {RWTH-CONV-145312},
pages = {173, 207 S. : zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst.},
year = {2014},
note = {Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2014},
abstract = {After returning from his ten-year-long stay in Spain in the
service of Philipp II, Vespasiano Gonzaga – who received
the title of Duke in 1577 – as of 1578 continued the
expansion of his ideal city of Sabbioneta, situated in the
Po Valley, by the formation of the today‘s Piazza d‘Armi
in the south-western part of the city. The first building to
be constructed there, by using existing structures, was the
Casino of Vespasiano, known today as Palazzo del Giardino or
Garden Palace, with its garden. However, already as of 1583
a number of further building activities followed, in which
the Casino was included: On the Casino’s western side two
buildings were attached (one of which does not exist
anymore) that connected the Casino with the Rocca situated
65 m farther to the west. To the Casino’s north facade
facing the Piazza d‘Armi the nearly hundred meters long
Corridor grande was attached to accommodate the Duke‘s
collection of antiquities. The upper floor of the Casino was
from this moment on part of a system of elevated corridors,
which led from the Rocca presumably through the whole town
up to the Ducal Palace. While the fresco programme of the
Casino – above all the very well-preserved paintings in
the rooms in the upper floor – was already analysed
several times thoroughly, the superficially unimposing
facade of the Casino – and in particular his wooden
cornice – has remained up to now widely unnoticed. Having
a closer look at the long-stretched main facade enclosed by
small corner risalits, above all the wooden cornice stands
out. Thirteen lion‘s head corbels divide the wooden
cornice into twelve identically formed segments, and every
cornice segment is quadrisected by three volute corbels. The
metope-like panels between the corbels are decorated
alternately with Bucrania and shields – the typical motifs
of the metopes of a Doric frieze. Nevertheless, the striking
rhythm and the typical forms of the wooden cornice can be
derived neither from the reference to stone modillions, nor
could comparable wooden cornices be found in Italy, which
could have served as a model for the wooden cornice of the
Casino in Sabbioneta. Hence, at the beginning of the thesis,
the construction history of the Casino and of the adjoining
constructions around the Piazza d‘Armi is reconstructed,
because only on the basis of these considerations can the
formation of the wooden cornice be understood. In addition,
creation and construction of the wooden cornice are
described for the first time in detail, and the function of
the wooden cornice for the design of the Casino facade is
analysed. Further, the spreading and creation of wooden
cornices in Italy and – because Vespasiano Gonzaga was
connected all the life with the Spanish royal family –
also in Spain is examined. Up to now neither the Italian
ones nor the Spanish wooden cornice constructions were
examined systematically. The classification, exemplary
description and comparative confrontation of Italian and
Spanish wooden cornices of the Renaissance will be achieved
here. On this basis the wooden cornice of the Casino in
Sabbioneta can be arranged exactly and be separated from
other cornice constructions. The thesis stands in connection
with the research project “The elevated corridors of
Sabbioneta” promoted by the DFG which was carried out in
the Department of History of Architecture (RWTH Aachen
University) under the direction of Professor Jan Pieper.
Within the scope of the research project the system of
elevated corridors was examined which connected the ducal
buildings of Vespasiano Gonzaga in the 1580s.},
keywords = {Architektur (SWD) / Holz (SWD) / Gesims (SWD) / Oberitalien
(SWD) / Palazzo del Giardino <Sabbioneta> (SWD) /
Antikengalerie Sabbioneta (SWD) / Galleria degli Antichi
<Sabbioneta> (SWD) / Vespasian <Sabbioneta, Herzog> (SWD) /
Sabbioneta (SWD) / Dattaro, Giuseppe (SWD) / Villa (SWD) /
Aragonien (SWD) / Navarra (SWD) / Zaragoza (SWD)},
cin = {217110},
ddc = {720},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)217110_20140620$},
shelfmark = {LH 67880 * LH 68090},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-51870},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/445001},
}
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