Dal Giardino Corsini all’Orto Botanico di Roma L’occasione del recente restauro curato dall’Istituto Nazionale per il Restauro di Roma della Scalinata e della Fontana degli Undici Zampilli nell’Orto Botanico di Roma ha permesso di precisare una serie di nuovi dati sulla progettazione e realizzazione di questo importante ma poco conosciuto manufatto architettonico progettato da Ferdinando Fuga nel 1742-1744 per il giardino del palazzo Corsini alla Lungara, divenuto in seguito (1883) sede dell’Orto Botanico dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. La “Fontana della Prospettiva”, come viene menzionata nei documenti settecenteschi, fu disegnata in asse con il braccio meridionale del palazzo e fu arricchita di statue e busti antichi, oggi in buona parte scomparsi ma documentati attraverso i pagamenti dei lavori alle maestranze impiegate e da un inventario inedito degli acquisti del Cardinale Corsini, committente dell’opera. Una statua è stata ritrovata nei magazzini dei Musei Comunali di Roma e se ne propone il trasferimento nel suo luogo originario.
From Corsini Garden to Botanic Garden of Rome New data on the project and on the achievement of the Scalinata and Fontana degli Undici Zampilli (Staircase and Fountain of the Eleven Water Spurts) have come to our knowledge during the recent restoration carried out by the National Restoration Institute of Rome. The important, but not well known, architectonic work by Ferdinando Fuga dated 1742-1744, was accomplished in the grandiose garden of Palazzo Corsini alla Lungara which in 1883 became the seat of the Botanic Garden of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. The “Fontana della Prospettiva” (Perspective Fountain), as it is called in the seventeenth century documents, was designed following the axis of the palace’s south wing and was enriched with ancient statues and busts, most of them now lost but documented by the payments to the workers and by an unpublished inventory redacted during the time of Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, patron of this work. One of these statues was recognized in Capitoline Museums' Depot and it is hereby proposed to place it back in its original seat.
Borsellino, E. (2011). Dal giardino Corsini all'Orto Botanico di Roma. In Maria Pia Micheli Gloria Tammeo (a cura di), Il restauro della scalinata delle Undici Fontane di Ferdinando Fuga (pp. 7-24). Roma : Gangemi editore.
Dal giardino Corsini all'Orto Botanico di Roma
BORSELLINO, Enzo
2011-01-01
Abstract
From Corsini Garden to Botanic Garden of Rome New data on the project and on the achievement of the Scalinata and Fontana degli Undici Zampilli (Staircase and Fountain of the Eleven Water Spurts) have come to our knowledge during the recent restoration carried out by the National Restoration Institute of Rome. The important, but not well known, architectonic work by Ferdinando Fuga dated 1742-1744, was accomplished in the grandiose garden of Palazzo Corsini alla Lungara which in 1883 became the seat of the Botanic Garden of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. The “Fontana della Prospettiva” (Perspective Fountain), as it is called in the seventeenth century documents, was designed following the axis of the palace’s south wing and was enriched with ancient statues and busts, most of them now lost but documented by the payments to the workers and by an unpublished inventory redacted during the time of Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, patron of this work. One of these statues was recognized in Capitoline Museums' Depot and it is hereby proposed to place it back in its original seat.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
