Giorgio Dellacasa

Giorgio Dellacasa
Storico dell'Arte e divulgatore scientifico. Ho 25 anni, sono nato a Genova e qui ho compiuto tutto il mio percorso di studio universitario, conseguendo la Laurea triennale in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali e la Laurea magistrale in Storia dell'Arte e Valorizzazione del patrimonio storico artistico. Attualmente ho conseguito l'accesso alla Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico-Artistici di Genova.

All the history of Piazza Navona, the most Roman of Rome's squares

All the history of Piazza Navona, the most Roman of Rome's squares

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 23/04/2024
Categories: Works and artists
On the occasion of the redevelopment of the Crypt of the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone with the new artistic and architectural lighting system donated by Webuild Group, we discover the history of Piazza Navona, from antiquity to the present. "Every...
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Fantastic things and where to find them: the fascinating world of the Wunderkammer

Fantastic things and where to find them: the fascinating world of the Wunderkammer

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 09/03/2024
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica
Collection [col-le-zió-ne] s. f. [from Latin collectio -onis, der. of colligÄ•re "to collect"]. - An orderly collection of objects of the same kind having value either for their intrinsic value or for their historical or artistic or scienti...
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Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 08/04/2023
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - Genova - Seicento
His works will be "highly esteemed in every time and place" thanks to the "perfection in the use of brushes." This is how Raffaele Soprani, in Lives de pittori scoltori et, architetteti genovesi (1674), opens the medallion dedicated to Bernardo Stroz...
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The unexpected and disruptive power of color: the renovated facade of Genoa Cathedral

The unexpected and disruptive power of color: the renovated facade of Genoa Cathedral

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 03/03/2023
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica
"Restoration is a critical act." This was the definition coined by Paul Philippot (1925 - 2016), among the founding fathers of ICCROM, and which equally strongly was taken up and expanded by Giovanni Carbonara (1942 - 2023), professor emeritus of Arc...
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Rubens and the Palaces of Genoa: beyond the Superb Mastery of the Brush

Rubens and the Palaces of Genoa: beyond the Superb Mastery of the Brush

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 15/12/2022
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - Barocco - Genova - Pieter Paul Rubens - Seicento
"Color is not stone." These simple words, attributed to Pieter Paul Rubens by Jacob Burckhardt, allow us to understand the neuralgic centrality held by the "Father of the Baroque," but, at the same time, they might limit the analysis of a personality...
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Antonio Canova's La Maddalena: from speed of thought to formal elegance

Antonio Canova's La Maddalena: from speed of thought to formal elegance

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 05/12/2020
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - Neoclassicismo - Antonio Canova - Liguria - Genova - Settecento
"He rewrote the hierarchies between the divine and the human as only a 'demigod of the fable,' a hero of mythical time could have done. "1 This is how the French writer Stendhal, in his Life of Napoleon (1817-1818), sketches the figure of the fat...
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Baroque places in Genoa: the conquest of an infinite space

Baroque places in Genoa: the conquest of an infinite space

by Giorgio Dellacasa, written on 26/11/2020
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - Seicento - Genova - Liguria - Barocco
Theatricality, splendor and union between the arts. These are the characters with which the innovative Baroque language, beginning in the second decade of the seventeenth century, was declined in the territories of the Ianuensis Republic, still t...
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