There were a number of techniques used to create this illusionistic 3D world in the walls. The villa is located at Primaporta, just north of Rome. This fresco of a gardenscape is a perfect example of the second style Roman wall painting. It is a ‘picture-window mural” and has been painted on the walls of a Villa that had been dedicated to Empress Livia, wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus. Instead, Second style artists painted the walls of a room with the aim to create the illusion that a three-dimensional world is surrounding you. See on Youtube: “Roma e la villa”.Second style painting began around 80 BCE and was completely different from the First style. Thus Pliny the Younger’s Villa Laurentina can at last be viewed in its totality as Stanisław Kostka Potocki first envisaged it. Today, when it is possible to render his design in 3D visualisations, the artistic and historical value of this unique reconstruction can finally be appreciated in full. It seems as if Potocki’s design was awaiting the proper research tools and an appropriate form of presentation. All the architectural plans, sections of façades and walls of the rooms are provided with scale bars in palmi romani and braccia polacche. The book offers an attempt to systematise all the laurentina drawings and to present a virtual model of the villa and its most beautiful rooms shown in 3D. This unique work, amazing in its formal and stylistic homogeneity, was produced in Rome, in collaboration with two Italian artists – Giuseppe Manocchi and Vincenzo Brenna – and Franciszek Smuglewicz, a Polish painter active in Rome. This book seeks to present Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki’s brilliant vision of the legendary villa of Pliny the Younger at Laurentum near Rome, rendered in the 1770s in over thirty colour plates.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |