Between 1830 and 1940, the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua underwent a series of architectural and decorative changes. Over one hundred years of almost uninterrupted works that are the subject of this contribution. In that period the “palinsesto antoniano” is at the center of a historicist reinterpretation, due to some important figures like Pietro Selvatico, Valentino Schmidt, the architects Berchet and Barberi, and Camillo Boito, who made a significant contribution to the realization of the project in 1895. Boito’s interventions made the pictorial decoration of the building necessary. The Veneranda Arca, institution designated to the safeguard of the Basilica, availed itself of the work of artists, who made the experience of the realization of the church of Sant’Antonio emblematic. This study of all this works is based on the integration of construction site documents, drawings and projects which I found in the archive of the Veneranda Arca.
Fra il 1830 e il 1940 la basilica antoniana ha subìto una serie di modifiche architettoniche e decorative. Oltre cent’anni di cantieri quasi ininterrotti che costituiscono l’oggetto del presente contributo. Il “palinsesto antoniano” in quegli anni è infatti al centro di una vera e propria “rilettura” storicistica, a opera di alcuni personaggi chiave fra i quali Pietro Selvatico, Valentino Schmidt, gli architetti Berchet e Barberi, e che trova culmine nell’intervento boitiano del 1895. Gli interventi di Boito crearono poi la necessità di procedere alla decorazione pittorica dell’edificio. A questo proposito la Veneranda Arca, ente deputato alla salvaguardia della basilica, si avvalse dell’opera di artisti che contribuirono a rendere emblematica l’esperienza della fabbrica antoniana. Questo studio dei cantieri antoniani si basa sull’integrazione tra documenti, disegni e progetti relativi ai cantieri, rinvenuti presso l’archivio antoniano.
Il palinsesto antoniano, 1830-1940
MAria Beatrice Gia
2022-01-01
Abstract
Between 1830 and 1940, the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua underwent a series of architectural and decorative changes. Over one hundred years of almost uninterrupted works that are the subject of this contribution. In that period the “palinsesto antoniano” is at the center of a historicist reinterpretation, due to some important figures like Pietro Selvatico, Valentino Schmidt, the architects Berchet and Barberi, and Camillo Boito, who made a significant contribution to the realization of the project in 1895. Boito’s interventions made the pictorial decoration of the building necessary. The Veneranda Arca, institution designated to the safeguard of the Basilica, availed itself of the work of artists, who made the experience of the realization of the church of Sant’Antonio emblematic. This study of all this works is based on the integration of construction site documents, drawings and projects which I found in the archive of the Veneranda Arca.I documenti in ARCA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.