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I Barresi di Pietraperzia : una corte feudale in Sicilia tra Medioevo ed età moderna

2016 - Caracol

143 p. : ill.

  • A Pietraperzia, piccolo centro nell'entroterra della Sicilia, si sviluppò tra il XV e il XVI secoloorte aristocratica colta e sofisticata, che ebbe il suo fulcro nel castello dei Barresi, grazie soprattutto a due membri di questa famiglia, Giovanni Antonio II e il figlio Matteo, che intrattennero rapporti con autorevoli esponenti della cultura scientifica, artistica e letteraria del tempo. Il ruolo di mecenati e finanziatori si estese dalle iniziative urbanistiche ed architettoniche promosse a Palermo e nei centri di loro influenza, fino alla commissione di preziosi manufatti artistici. L'indagine ha consentito di circoscrivere i principali interventi – in un periodo compreso tra gli anni Settanta del Quattrocento e gli anni Trenta del Cinquecento – tra i quali emerge in particolare il castello di Pietraperzia.
  • Grazie a un approccio di natura interdisciplinare basato su un'ampia ricerca archivistica e iconografica e sul rilievo delle architetture ancora esistenti, oggi ridotte allo stato di rudere (il castello di Pietraperzia) o radicalmente trasformate (chiesa Madre di Pietraperzia), è stato possibile proporre ipotesi ricostruttive relative alla loro configurazione cinquecentesca. [Testo dell'editore].
  • "This study focuses on the artistic patronage and, in particular, on the architectural activities promoted by a family of the feudal aristocracy in Sicily, the Barresi of Pietraperzia. This is a small town located in the hinterland of the island, currently in the province of Enna. In this place, where the Barresi resided permanently, between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries there developed a cultured and sophisticated aristocratic court, whose heart was the castle of Pietraperzia. This occurred especially thanks to two members of the family, Giovanni Antonio II and his son Matteo, who were in good terms with authoritative ex-ponents of the scientific, artistic, and literary culture of the time.ole of patrons and donors was crucial at different levels, from urban concepts in the towns that they dominated to the architectural initiatives promoted both in the main fief and in Palermo as well as in other minor fiefs, extending to the commission of precious ar-tistic artifacts.
  • This survey has allowed to find out that the main interventions were carried out in the period between the Seventies of the Fifteenth century and the Thirties of the Sixteenth century, cor-responding to a delicate phase of transition between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, which is effectively demonstrated by works of great originality of expression, among which emerges in particular the Pietraperzia castle. study is characterized by an approach of an interdisciplinary nature which is based on extensive archival and iconographic research and on the survey of the still existing ar-chitectures, which are now reduced to ruins (the Pietraperzia castle) or have been radically transformed (the Mother Church of Pietraperzia): on these grounds, it was possible to pro-pose reconstructive hypotheses allowing to restore them to their original Sixteenth-century condition. " [Publisher's Text].
  • Includes appendix with documents (pages 129-141).
  • Pietraperzia, near Enna (Sicily).