Viollet-le-Duc’s early travels are characterized by a graphic production impressive for size, variety, and breadth of subjects, as well as extraordinary pictorial quality. Through targeted investigations into international critical literature and forays into the architect’s vast written work and personal cor-respondence, this essay examines the reasons behind Viollet-le-Duc’s tireless and almost obsessive research conducted programmatically through drawing. The French Academy’s rigorous methods for the systematic collection of studies on antiquities are briefly mentioned to contextualize the schol-ar’s views on the methods and purposes of drawing and its role in architect training. This vast and complex subject is here discussed about certain specific issues: how Viollet-le-Duc’s travel experience differs from that of research grant holders from the Academy; his unique way of conceiving the draw-ing of ancient buildings; and the connection between his early reflections and mature theories. The emerging frame gives us an idea of how, in the young traveller’s mind, even in this early period, a close connection was already forming between the practical exercise of drawing and architects’ training, graphic analysis and historical investigation, and the theories of drawing, architecture and restoration.
I viaggi giovanili di Viollet-le-Duc si caratterizzano per una produzione grafica impressionante per mole, varietà di tipologie e ampiezza di soggetti, nonché per la straordinaria qualità grafica e pittorica. Il saggio, a partire da indagini mirate nella letteratura critica internazionale e da alcune incursioni nella vasta produzione testuale dell’architetto e nella sua corrispondenza privata, indaga, con particolare riferimento al viaggio in Italia del 1836, le ragioni che muovono Viollet-le-Duc a una ricerca infaticabile e quasi ossessiva, condotta programmaticamente attraverso il disegno dal vero. I modi della raccolta sistematica di studi sulle antichità gestita con rigore dall’Accademia francese vengono sinteticamente richiamati per contestualizzare le posizioni dello studioso in merito ai modi e ai fini del disegno e al suo ruolo nella formazione degli architetti. Il tema, vasto e articolato, viene qui trattato in riferimento ad alcune questioni specifiche: le differenze tra l’esperienza di viaggio di Viollet-le-Duc e dei borsisti dell’Accademia, il suo modo specifico di intendere il disegno degli edifici antichi, la connessione tra le riflessioni del periodo e le teorie della maturità. Dal quadro tracciato si può intuire come prenda forma già in questi anni, nel pensiero del giovane viaggiatore, una connessione stringente tra pratica del disegno e formazione, tra analisi grafica e indagine storica, tra teoria del disegno, teoria dell’archi-tettura e teoria del restauro
Viaggiare attraverso la storia. I disegni giovanili di Viollet-le-Duc / Travelling through history: the early drawings of Viollet-le-Duc
C. Casonato
2022-01-01
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Viollet-le-Duc’s early travels are characterized by a graphic production impressive for size, variety, and breadth of subjects, as well as extraordinary pictorial quality. Through targeted investigations into international critical literature and forays into the architect’s vast written work and personal cor-respondence, this essay examines the reasons behind Viollet-le-Duc’s tireless and almost obsessive research conducted programmatically through drawing. The French Academy’s rigorous methods for the systematic collection of studies on antiquities are briefly mentioned to contextualize the schol-ar’s views on the methods and purposes of drawing and its role in architect training. This vast and complex subject is here discussed about certain specific issues: how Viollet-le-Duc’s travel experience differs from that of research grant holders from the Academy; his unique way of conceiving the draw-ing of ancient buildings; and the connection between his early reflections and mature theories. The emerging frame gives us an idea of how, in the young traveller’s mind, even in this early period, a close connection was already forming between the practical exercise of drawing and architects’ training, graphic analysis and historical investigation, and the theories of drawing, architecture and restoration.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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