The Patterns of the Transformation in Central European Ceiling Painting around 1700 and Franz Carl Remp in Brežice Castle

The ceiling decoration of the Great Hall of Brežice Castle was executed for the Attems family by the painter Franz Carl Remp in 1702–1703. Its form had most probably been inspired by an engraving, reproducing the fresco by Pietro da Cortona in the hall of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. During the 17th century, many engravings of various motifs and types were used as models for monumental paintings in Central Europe. However, it was above all graphic reproductions of famous ceiling paintings in different artistic centres in Italy which inspired the qualitative turn of Central European ceiling painting around 1700.

MULTI-WAVELENGTHS 3D LASER SCANNING FOR PIGMENT AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON THE FRESCOED CEILING <q>THE TRIUMPH OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE</q>

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The modern 3D digitalization techniques open new scenarios on how to transmit to the next generations the state of health of Cultural Heritage (CH) buildings, paintings, frescos or statues. The final goal of the 3D digitalization is an exact replica of the acquired target, but a standard and unique technique able to digitalize artworks of different size and in different ambient light conditions is still far from being successfully ready for the CH field. Even if both laser scanning and photogrammetry can be considered mature techniques, applied with success in most of the Cultural Heritage study cases, they are limited in terms of colour digitalization and image quality in all the cases where ambient light and big sensor-target distances are crucial factors: differently to standard laser scanners, which collect colour information by the use of a coaxial camera and the distance by an IR laser source, the RGB-ITR (Red, Green and Blue Imaging Topological Radar) scanner, developed in ENEA, is equipped with three different laser sources for the simultaneous colour and distance estimation. The present work shows the results obtained applying the above-mentioned multi-wavelengths laser scanner for collecting a complete high-quality 3D colour model of “The Triumph of Divine Providence” vault, painted by Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of the noble hall inside Palazzo Barberini in Rome.</p>

The Villa Pigneto Sacchetti excavation: a new interpretation

I resti settecentesca della Villa Pigneto Sacchetti si trovano a Roma, a nordovest della Città del Vaticano, sul ripido fianco nella Valle dell'Inferno nel parco regionale di Monte Mario. Concepito per la famiglia Sacchetti da Pietro da Cortona, essa fu una delle poche tra i suoi progetti architettonici ad essere costruita. Nel 1990 si pensava che la villa fosse andata perduta, e così fu elaborato un progetto per collocare ed esplorare i resti materiali; nel 1992 abbiamo parzialmente scavato la villa e in seguito pubblicato una relazione di scavo (in Papers of the British School at Rome 68 (2000)). Nel 2008 è stata pubblicata la molto attesa monografia di Jörg Martin Merz, Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture. Senza alcun dubbio questo volume fornisce un importante contributo alla letteratura architettonica del Barocco romano. Esso include un capitolo dedicato alla Villa Pigneto Sacchetti, che prende in considerazione alcuni dei nostri rinvenimenti. Questo articolo riguarda vari punti sollevati sul nostro lavoro e offre una reinterpretazione della storia della costruzione della villa con lo scopo di riconciliare opinioni divergenti e di incorporare i progressi degli studi dal 2000.