PALLADIUM AND PALLADIANISM – NATIONAL GALLERY – CAGLIARI – THURSDAY JULY 12

Thursday, July 12, 2012, at 18, the premises of the National Gallery in the citadel of museums, Danila Siddi, a degree in Art History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cagliari, presents the conference: “Palladio and the Palladian “.
Andrea Palladio, the most Mannerist Venetian architect of the age, is able to convey its architectural principles and to his contemporaries either directly or indirectly to posterity through his Treatise: The Four Books of Architecture, published in Venice in 1570. The work became one of the biggest publishing successes of all time and the various translations in various European countries contributed to the birth of Palladian. Soon, the Veneto Palladian extended from throughout Europe, especially England was to perceive better the Palladian lesson, thanks to the architect Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century rediscovered the Treaty contributed to the emergence of a new architectural culture which reached a stage in the eighteenth century through more organic movement neo-Palladian genuine promoted by Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington III.
And ‘the last round of the summer cycle of conferences organized by the Art Gallery Director, Marcella Serreli, the Superintendent of Educational Services for Architectural, Landscape, Historical, Artistic and ethno-anthropological to the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano, headed by Superintendent Gabriel Tola , in collaboration with the ‘University of Cagliari, Faculty of Humanities, who has offered to recent graduates the opportunity to present their thesis and trainees to explain to the public the work that they have engaged in the Superintendence. It ‘was an opportunity to meet young scholars and enthusiasts of our culture for the first time they had a dedicated space. For students of the Degree in Cultural Heritage of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cagliari, participation in conferences, has contributed to the achievement of educational credit. To attend the conference Admission is free.