Palazzo Ducale

Profile

The design of this building will start in a lucky moment in the political history of the republic after the victory against the Meloria Pisani (1284) and that of Korcula with the Venetians (1298), Genoa gradually gains its economic power in the Mediterranean.

The captains of the people Oberto Spinola Doria and Conrad are building the Palazzo degli Abati existing urban area between the churches of S. Lorenzo and S. Matthew (1291).

In the new building is also incorporated with the adjoining Palazzo tower of Alberto Fieschi, purchased by the Republic in 1294. From this core develops the Palace, which is called "Duke" from 1339, when it became the seat of the first Genoese Doge, Simon Boccanegra.
Part of the medieval structure is still visible today. In the first phase construction of the building belongs to the "Tower of the people", then raised in 1539, which still dominates the historical center.

During the XIV - XV century palace has been constantly improved with the addition of new development, close to the four sides of the square.

The medieval structure disappeared with the work of the sixteenth century, when it is given to building a new look, more appropriate to the magnitude and the ceremony of the new oligarchic Republic.

Ticino in 1591 was entrusted to Andrea Ceresola Vannone said the task of rebuilding the palace. Compensation by that artist should be the general approach of the new building, featuring a huge covered atrium, flanked by two arcaded courtyards.

At Vannone attibuito is also the wide staircase that is divided into two opposing and ramps connecting the atrium with balconies on the first floor.
The ramp leads into the western areas of representation, and the Sale of Major and Minor Council and the Doge's Apartments.

There is also the ducal chapel, a simple rectangular room entirely decorated by Giovanni Battista Carlone (1653-55).
Once in a cycle of frescoes depicting the Virgin crowned Queen of Genoa.
The purpose of celebration of the glories of Genoa through painting is most evident in the frescoes of the side walls, with glorious episodes in the history of Genoa placed in an architectural frame-painted trompe l'oeil.

Seventeenth-century stage decoration is also kept on the fresco by Domenico Fiasella ramp on the left of the staircase, with the figures of God the Father died with Christ, the Madonna and patron saints of the city.

In 1777 a major fire destroyed some parts of the Palace. The decoration of the Hall of Great Council is irreparably damaged. Later, in 1875, Joseph Island frescoes in the vault an allegory of trade in Liguria.

Rebuilding the heart of the building is left to the cantons of Ticino Simone, said neo-classical architect. The cantons also designed the interior decoration of the rooms of representation: the Hall of Great Council is covered with a huge barrel vault titles with a pavilion, decorated with stucco. The walls are punctuated by a series of pilasters with capitals in stucco and marble bases yellow.

The Minor Council Hall is decorated with fluted pilasters, gilded stucco and frescoes are given to the rats, a painter who uses drawings by Domenico Piola.

Interventions in the nineteenth and early twentieth century helped to distort the original appearance of the palace, which is also detached from its urban context. With the construction of the new Piazza De Ferrari, facing the east side of the Palace, Orlando Grosso you created, especially with a facade painted decorations.
Reopening (May 14, 1992), the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, with 38,000 square meters. and 300,000 cubic meters of surface. volume was the most extensive restoration work carried out in Europe.
The project of John Spalla has resulted in the recovery of the late sixteenth century Vannone, without destroying the evidence of the life of the Palace through the ages (medieval structures, the intervention of the cantons, the facade of 1935).

As an alloying element of the system has created the largest Shoulder "road hanging, spiral ramp in the steel structure that develops from the ground floor up to the terraces, occupying the space and avoiding the destruction of historic structures.
Anhören
Umschrift
Wörterbuch - Detaillierten Wörterbucheintrag anzeigen
Google Übersetzer für:SuchenVideosE-MailTelefonChatUnternehmen
Über Google ÜbersetzerSofortübersetzung deaktivierenDatenschutzHilfe
©2010UnternehmenstoolsTranslator ToolkitÜber Google ÜbersetzerBlogDatenschutzHilfe
?