Not far from Genoa are the most important slate quarries in Italy. This has meant that in the Ligurian and, above all, the Genoese area, slate has soon started to be used as a pictorial support. The centuries-old use of slate in construction, especially for roofing and flooring, has probably affected the types of slate paintings in Liguria and their inclusion in architectural contexts. In the seventeenth century, votive shrines containing slate paintings were frequent, as well as shaped slate slabs were used as extensions, with great illusionistic effect, to bring out the figures from the fields of the great baroque decorations of the churches. In addition to these typologies, peculiar to the Genoese territory, the great production of altarpieces for churches or devotional paintings related to private contexts was also investigated, with particular attention to the information contained in the sources, which document a large number of works, some of which they have not arrived to this day.
L'ardesia e i pittori genovesi: edicole, pale e sagome dipinte, in Kermes N. 111-112; annata XXXI luglio-dicembre 2018; pp. 35-42
Manuela Serando
2019-01-01
Abstract
Not far from Genoa are the most important slate quarries in Italy. This has meant that in the Ligurian and, above all, the Genoese area, slate has soon started to be used as a pictorial support. The centuries-old use of slate in construction, especially for roofing and flooring, has probably affected the types of slate paintings in Liguria and their inclusion in architectural contexts. In the seventeenth century, votive shrines containing slate paintings were frequent, as well as shaped slate slabs were used as extensions, with great illusionistic effect, to bring out the figures from the fields of the great baroque decorations of the churches. In addition to these typologies, peculiar to the Genoese territory, the great production of altarpieces for churches or devotional paintings related to private contexts was also investigated, with particular attention to the information contained in the sources, which document a large number of works, some of which they have not arrived to this day.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.