Tagungsbeitrag
Huth, Andreas:
„Degli sgraffiti delle case ...“Die Sgraffito-Technik in Italien von ihrer Entdeckung im Trecento bis zur Wiederaufnahme im 19. Jahrhundert
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Der Beitrag zur Tagung zeichnet anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und in überwiegend chronologischer Ordnung die Verwendung von Sgraffito in Italien vom 14. bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert nach. Neben Aspekten der Technologie und der Ausführungspraxis sind in diesem Zusammenhang Fragen der Auftraggeberschaft, der Handwerker bzw. Künstler und der zeit- und ortsspezifischen Motivik zu behandeln.
„Degli sgraffiti delle case ...“ The Sgraffito Technique in Italy from its Invention during the Trecento to the Renewal in the 19th Century
By the time Giorgio Vasari wrote his chapter on the Italian sgraffito technique ("Degli sgraffiti delle case…") in 1550, approximately 250 years had already passed since its invention by Florentine plaster workers. The range of motifs, which had been very limited during the Trecento, developed over the following centuries—driven by builders' competition for aesthetic distinction, the creativity of highly qualified artists, and a high-performance culture of craftsmanship. In seventeenth-century Italy the sgraffito technique fell into disuse; it gained renewed interest only in the nineteenth century and culminated in the second half of that century in a veritable sgraffito renaissance.
On the basis of many examples presented mainly in chronological order, the paper outlines the use of sgraffito in Italy from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Besides aspects of technology and practical application, the paper considers problems of builders' and artists' interests and the motifs specific to regions and epochs.
Andreas Huth studied conservation/restoration at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (1999–2004) and Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University Berlin (2005–2013). From 2009 to 2013, he was a student assistant at the Research Database Project Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known in the Renaissance (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Humboldt University Berlin) and in 2011/2012 at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut. In 2016 he received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with the thesis "Sgraffito Decoration in 14th and 15th Century Florence. Invention, Technology, Significance". In 2014/2015 he had a fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Since 2016 he has a postdoctoral position as a scientific assistant in the department of art history at the Technical University, Berlin. Parallel to his research, he works as a freelance conservator/restorer of wall decorations and architectural surfaces.
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10.5165/hawk-hhg/448