The Academy on the Travel

Monica Esposito

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-110-9

The Academy on the Travel: The Italian tour of Danish architects between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Authors

Monica Esposito

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6844-2647

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-110-9

Keywords:

Travel, Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, Bertel Thorvaldsen's atelier, Danish architects

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: UrbsHistoriaeImago: Storia e immagine dei territori, dei centri urbani e delle architetture

Pages: 355

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28346

Abstract: The founding of Det Kongelige Danske skildre- bildhugger og Bygnings akademi marks a watershed in the education of Danish architects, and a renewal in architectural production between the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the two centuries, a young Danish architect's formative experience is linked to study at the Academy, which, on a continuous basis, updates, conforms and takes part in contemporary diatribes, theories and speculations. The volume reconstructs the paths and investigations made in Italy by Danish stipendiaries and their participation in contemporary debates. What emerges is a Copenhagense society strongly linked to the Peninsula; in fact, traveler-architects between the 18th and 19th centuries identified Italian buildings as having national identity roots. Thanks to largely unpublished archival material, we come to understand the fascination that Italy has on Danish travelers, who will continually attempt to recreate a Lidt Italien in the cold Nordic lands

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Author Biography

Monica Esposito

Monica Esposito received her Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Naples "Federico II" in 2021. During her early studies, she carried out research in Denmark first at Det Københavns Universitet and then at Det Kongelige Akademi-Arkitektur, Design, Konservering, publishing the results in a number of articles including The Matrix of the Ancient in Copenhagen Exhibitions, in THE GLOBAL CITY The Urban Condition as a Pervasive Phenomenon (2020) and From the Ephemeral to the Permanent: Nyrop's pavilion for the 1888 Exhibition as a model for Copenhagen City Hall in THE PALINSESTO CITY (2020). She has also dealt with issues related to Italy's early laws on landscape protection, particularly Law No. 778 of 1922, also known as the Croce Law, later dwelling on Giancarlo De Carlo's vision in Il territorio in pericolo, in Giancarlo De Carlo nel centenario (2021).