The search for an architectural style appropriate for the identity of the grand tycoons and American high society, not only for their luxurious residences but also for the urban buildings that they financed and constructed, rose alongside a diffused aspiration shared by the powers that be and the leading architects of the time to create and image for the United States capable of representing its faith in progress and the new economic forces. But why did they choose the Italian Renaissance? What differentiated the recovery of the “Belle Arte” of the Gilded Age, as defined by Mark Twain, from the reclamation of the Renaissance taste that had been asserted throughout the Old Continent? This article seeks to respond to such questions, analysing the phenomenon of the “American Renaissance”, the works of theAmerican architects and the role of the clients active in NewYork from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries.
Titolo: | I signori del "Rinascimento" e i loro palazzi: l'immagine italiana di New York |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 |
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Abstract: | The search for an architectural style appropriate for the identity of the grand tycoons and American high society, not only for their luxurious residences but also for the urban buildings that they financed and constructed, rose alongside a diffused aspiration shared by the powers that be and the leading architects of the time to create and image for the United States capable of representing its faith in progress and the new economic forces. But why did they choose the Italian Renaissance? What differentiated the recovery of the “Belle Arte” of the Gilded Age, as defined by Mark Twain, from the reclamation of the Renaissance taste that had been asserted throughout the Old Continent? This article seeks to respond to such questions, analysing the phenomenon of the “American Renaissance”, the works of theAmerican architects and the role of the clients active in NewYork from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. La ricerca di uno stile adeguato all’identità dei grandi tycoons e dell’alta società americana, non solo per le loro dimore lussuose ma anche per tutti gli edifici urbani che questi stavano finanziando e facendo costruire, era affiancata dall’aspirazione diffusa, da parte del potere pubblico e dei maggiori architetti, di fondare un’immagine degli Stati Uniti, capace di rappresentare la fiducia nel progresso e nelle nuove forze economiche. Ma perché scegliere il Rinascimento italiano? Cosa differenziava il recupero delle “Arti belle” nella Gilded Age, come fu definita da Mark Twain, dalle analoghe riprese del gusto rinascimentale che si stavano affermando un po’ ovunque nel Vecchio Continente? L’intervento cerca di rispondere a tali domande, analizzando il fenomeno dell’“American Renaissance”, le opere degli architetti americani e il ruolo dei committenti attivi a New York tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11695/10632 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |