Who is 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.

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Palazzo Sinibaldo Fieschi, the residence designed by Scamozzi in the heart of Genoa

Palazzo Sinibaldo Fieschi, the residence designed by Scamozzi in the heart of Genoa

Right in the heart of Genoa, along that noble street that, starting in the first half of the 19th century, was known as “Strada carrettabile Carlo Alberto”—and is now called Via San Lorenzo—stands one of the most famous, representative, a...
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"Libiamo, libiamo ne' lieti calici": the disruptive power of Bacchic dances.

"Libiamo, libiamo ne' lieti calici": the disruptive power of Bacchic dances.

"Run, O Mènads, run, O Mènads,[...] amidst phrygian songs, amidst cries, while from the sacred harmonious flute vibrate sacred melodies that guide those who to the mount hurl themselves. And agile as a filly through the fields free, fol...
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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

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

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 scientific...
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Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

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

"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

"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

"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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