L'altro volto dell'architettura nella Napoli borbonica del secondo Settecento. L'attività di Luca e Bartolomeo Vecchione fra tradizione e innovazione

• Autores: Maria Gabriela Pezone, Mariaimmacolata Tedesco
• Localización: Confronto: studi e ricerche di storia dell'arte europea, ISSN 1721-6745, Nº. 5, 2022, págs. 113-138
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The artistic choices of Charles of Bourbon, oriented towards a classicism with a Roman stamp, together with the loss of the undisputed protagonists of the early eighteenth century (Vaccaro in 1745 and Sanfelice in 1748), lead to the absolute predominance of 'imported' architects in the middle of the century.

    Ferdinando Fuga (from 1748) and Luigi Vanvitelli (from 1750), contenders for the domination of the Parthenopean artistic scene during the second half of the eighteenth century, whose rivalry did not exclude blows, were entrusted with commissions of the utmost importance, not only royal but also from the most prominent nobility of the era. Against the background of official court architecture, industrious activity continued without complaint by a myriad of craftsmen that has largely remained in shadow and whose histography has been rediscovered during the last few years. These were the architects whose manner looked back at the fashions and stylistic features in the Neapolitan tradition of the early eighteenth century, these features could still be found, not without some innovations, during the second half of the century. Because of the similarity in manner to early eighteenth century works, many of their works were erroneously attributed now to Sanfelice now to Vaccaro. Among them, Niccolò Tagliacozzi Canale, Buonocore, and de Blasio can rightly be included also with Luca and Bartolomeo Vecchione. This essay intends to concentrate on their activity developed during the 30s through the 70s of the eigteenth century.

    Those two just mentioned now, belonged to a family who for generations worked in the building trades. The parents with their building company aided with the great masters of the eighteenth century. In these workshops, the two brothers took their first steps, rising the status of artisans to architects, but thanks to their origins, always kept in touch with working the matter to mold -wood, stucco, stone and marble- bending them to the design of architecture and made this attention to material a distinctive mark of their building activity