{"id":2931,"date":"2021-10-11T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/uncategorized\/baroque-churches-and-the-trapani-barocchetto\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:03:21","slug":"baroque-churches-and-the-trapani-barocchetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/uncategorized\/baroque-churches-and-the-trapani-barocchetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque churches and the Trapani \u2018barocchetto\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 17th century Trapani maintained its loyalty to the kingdom of Spain. While in Rome the formal solutions of <strong>great Baroque art<\/strong> were being defined, our town, after lingering in the tardy forms of 16th-century classicism or mannerism, (as in the Jesuit church and its College),\u00a0 moved towards a chromatic-Spanish interpretation of the Baroque which saw the prevalence of colour intonations over plastic effects.<\/p>\n<p>Inlaid polychrome marble altars, carvings and spiral columns, modulations of light and shadow with alternating solids and voids are the distinctive architectural features. These effects can be found in the interior of the <strong>church of \u2018Soccorso\u2019<\/strong>, better known as Badia Nuova, and on the portal of the \u2018<strong>Carminello<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>church<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Between the end of the 17th century and the early 18th century, the architecture of Trapani started to move towards a more baroque vision in which use of contrast defined the relief value of the fa\u00e7ades and their features.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples are the fa\u00e7ades of the <strong>Itria church<\/strong> and of <strong>Palazzo Senatorio<\/strong> (the seat of the City Senate).<\/p>\n<p>The bourgeoisie and the aristocracy of Trapani, along with the various religious orders \u2013 Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians \u2013 built palaces, churches and convents according to the taste and style of the times<\/p>\n<p>In the early 18th century the Trapani architectural style was inserted into the Borrominiesque baroque atmosphere by Giovanni Biagio Amico. He gave a personal interpretation of the Baroque style by developing dynamic relief solutions for fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of his style are evident in the fa\u00e7ade of two churches, San Lorenzo and the Purgatory: the former after Borromini\u2019s style, the latter with a tower-like fa\u00e7ade, in which\u00a0 momentum and vertical development meet with\u00a0 a fragmented curve in a horizontal movement.<\/p>\n<p>Some families from Trapani were responsible for the construction of <strong>buildings<\/strong> and <strong>palatial homes<\/strong> of so-called <em><strong>barocchetto<\/strong> <\/em>(litt. \u201cminor baroque\u201d), that is a Baroque more oriented towards ornamental and decorative interests rather than seeking to create original compositions. A rich profusion of carvings and decorations characterise the frames of windows and balconies in three palaces: Berardo Ferro, Milo di Salina and Lombardo. A linear-baroque style can be found instead in some portals and in the mansions of Alessandro Ferro and Annibale Fardella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 17th century Trapani maintained its loyalty to the kingdom of Spain. While in Rome the formal solutions of great Baroque art were being defined, our town, after lingering in the tardy forms of 16th-century classicism or mannerism, (as in the Jesuit church and its College),\u00a0 moved towards a chromatic-Spanish interpretation of the Baroque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}