Isabella Leone
Isabella Leone is a conservation scientist (Sapienza, Rome University). She is the president of "Associazione Culturale Calipso", a cultural association which wants to disseminate culture and art. She is a CUC (Centro Universitario Cattolico - Rome) scholarship holder and a team member of the project ALFA (ERC funded project).
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large-format paintings, complemented by four single herms carrying astronomical attributes, is presently preserved in the original Atelier-Specola of the attic of the building and in the second floor where some canvases have been moved, with the exception of a painting (recovered on an old photographic plate) and a herm, that appear to be missing. A large
celestial planisphere painted on a ceiling of the attic and some astronomical instruments are also surviving. The cycle features 85 historical episodes since the first century BC to the XVII century AD, some explained with a short textual description, but the majority associated only to a year, often imprecise or plainly wrong. We propose identifications for
a number of antiquarian architectural settings and a general discussion of the iconographic themes represented. Furthermore, we show some interesting visual evidences of an influence by the astronomer and proto archeologist Francesco Bianchini, at the time superintendent of the Roman Antiquities for Clement XI.
The sequence of 18 large-format paintings, complemented by 4 single herms carrying astronomical attributes, is presently preserved in the attic of the building and in the first floor, where some canvases have been moved, with the exception of a painting and a herm which appear to be missing. A large celestial planisphere painted on a ceiling of the attic and some scientific instruments are also surviving, pointing to technical activities in the field of the science of the stars in the little known context of the Italian astronomy between the XVII and XVIII centuries. The cycle features 81 surviving historical episodes since the first century BC to the XVII century AD, some explained with a short textual description, but the majority associated only to a year, often imprecise or plainly wrong. We offer here a brief portrait of the Patrizi family and palace and an overview of the iconographical problems posed by the paintings.
The project, that will be extended in 2020, was dedicated to the inspiring figure of late prof. Vito Francesco Polcaro, a former SIA member.
using open source satellite images by Google Earth, as already made in a previous
work on the orientation of Greek Theatres (Monaco et al. 2016). The census of the azimuth of all the theatres axes (the already recorded and those in good conservation
status) has not shown a possible preferred directionality but allowed to evaluate a
correlation between their orientation and the pattern of the road networks.
Questo studio statistico sull'orientamento dei teatri Romani censiti in letteratura è stato svolto utilizzando immagini satellitari da Google Earth, come già effettuato nel precedente lavoro relativo all'orientamento dei teatri Greci (Monaco et al. 2016). La misura dell'azimut dell'asse di tutti i teatri Romani noti e in buono stato di conservazione (160 teatri) non ha evidenziato una direzionalità preferenziale, ma ha consentito di valutare una correlazione tra il loro orientamento e l'assetto degli assi viari del contesto nel quale sono inseriti.
our studies for the last three years. It concerns an excavated site studied for almost two
centuries in the traditional Archaeology manner. A series of expeditions which took
place mention this site since 1829. It was excavated several times, sometimes in the
midst of complicated war-political events, and almost always without the appropriate
archaeological elements or the idea of landscape/cultural archaeology or
Archaeoastronomy.
Throughout our work and studies, we have come researched by means of abundant
bibliography in this regard, and our studies and opinions coincide with the ideas of one
of the most prolific writers about Mezora, Enrique Gonzalbes Gravioto. Gravioto
believes that in recent years there have been no new studies, and that there are no
complete studies based on history, sociology and geomorphology.
Our intention is to carry out a multidisciplinary study of the megalithic group, in all
aspects that made it functional throughout its history. Not only we will carry out a
thorough study of the existing bibliography but our work will expose the first result of
our campaign to the North of Morocco, in order to place Mezora geographically,
sociologically and historically in the set of Mediterranean megalithic monuments. We
will present our observations virtually at the Third International Symposium of
Megalithic Monuments and cults in Blagoevgrad, in September 2020.
The first part of our studies leads us to the presentation of a work concerning various
Archaeo-Astronomy aspects of the set. Our current work will try to make sense of the
succession of functions with which the people of the area used it: Burial site, temple
for solar worship, and the possibilities of its use in the form of other sacred aspects,
meeting point, mark of political boundaries and finally part of the prehistoric social
mobility and commerce system in North Africa.
We took a bibliographic tour starting from the first time the site was mentioned by the
Roman writers Plutarch and Tanusio Gemino, due to the description of the site by the
Roman general Sertorio (year 81 BC) in the context of civil wars and mentions of the
Mauritanian King Iuba II. We will see the location of the site in the Peutigerian Tabula
and how its privileged location leads to the conclusion that not only does an ancient
tomb exist but the complete set exists as well. We will explore the subsequent silence
in the writings of Pliny and Solino and of the medieval travellers and arrive to the final
explorations.
Finally we will take a field research of the site surroundings and old known routes in
order to understand and discover new architectural and functional relationships, in this
exciting archaeological and cult site of North Africa.