Eikonocity. History and Iconography of European Cities and Sities

V.9 N.2 (2024)

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Issue 2 of 2024 of our journal features intriguing contributions that span various scales, urban, architectural, and artistic, while never losing sight of the broader historiographical issues related to the transformations of the city's image. It emphasizes the sources, events, and key figures that have shaped its development over the course of the modern and contemporary eras.
This issue stands out for the interdisciplinary framework it presents, as well as for the common thread of studying sources relevant to recovering the urban image and identity in their numerous connections between urban planning, art, and history, and their implications for present-day decision-making.

The historical image of the European city: sources, events and protagonists of the urban story during the modern and contemporary ages

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Editoriale

On the Arconati’s apograph by Vincenzo Corazza: Leonardo’s influence on the contemporary Neapolitan debate in the field of hydraulic engineering

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The study of Arconati’s apograph by Vincenzo Corazza documents the scholar’s attention to the science of water. A manuscript intended as an instrument to give new impetus to the figure of the architect-engineer is a further testimony of the liveliness of the Neapolitan debate on hydraulic engineering at the end of the Eighteenth Century. The study of the few, but significant, variations present in this manuscript also opens up the problem of relations between the few known apographs from Leonardo on Del moto e misura dell'acqua.

The Genoese Colony of Galata in Istanbul: Urban Transformations and Architectural Development during the Ottoman Rule (1453-1923)

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The settlement of Galata stood opposite Byzantium/Constantinople, across the Golden Horn. In the Middle Ages, it transformed into the Genoese colony city of Pera, which thrived for almost three centuries as an independent entity. It soon became a significant port in the Eastern Mediterranean, attracting many foreigners drawn to new commercial opportunities.
After the Ottoman conquest of 1453, Galata retained its privileges, and the Ottomans continued to foster its prosperity. Through the Ottoman Empire’s reform processes during the 19th century, Galata and Pera, renamed Beyoğlu, became the new cosmopolitan and international center of Istanbul’s bourgeoisie, prior to the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

Intercontinental relations: the circulation of urban and artistic programmes

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Research into the diffusion and miscegenation of European culture on the Global Map has been given a fundamental boost by academic research carried out in recent decades by universities and research centres. The year 1500 is a concrete milestone in intercontinental artistic interactions between Europe, Africa, America and Asia. In these territories and cultures, the Iberian countries played a pivotal role in the dissemination of
European artistic systems. The design of urban structures, as well as architectures and functions, are great markers of this interaction.

Naples in the years of Risanamento: the commission of the Ciclo di San Martino to Vincenzo Migliaro

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The contribution analyses the representation of Naples in the late 19th and early 20th century. Attention will be paid in particular to the series of paintings dedicated to the preservation of the city’s memory, executed by the artist Vincenzo Migliaro, commissioned by the Ministry and destined for the Museo di San Martino. Through Migliaro’s works, appropriately collated with photographs of the time, an attempt will be made to examine the aspects of the places subjected to transformation in order to understand their changing iconographic
features.

Iconografía de una utopía. La ciudad de las Rías de Andrés Fernández-Albalat Lois

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En 1968, el arquitecto Andrés Fernández-Albalat Lois presentó un proyecto para Galicia, conocido como La ciudad de las Rías, una innovadora propuesta para crear una nueva ciudad funcional entre A Coruña y Ferrol. Aunque la idea contó con apoyo institucional, finalmente fue descartada en los años ochenta, optándose por un modelo de crecimiento disperso. Este artículo analiza la propuesta a partir de la rica iconografía generada por esta utopía urbana diseñada para «vivir, vivir y trabajar».

Letture & Ricerche

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