Tue
10
Feb
Seminars and Conferences
Seminar "Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti and Antonio Fontanesi in Japan at the End of the Nineteenth Century"
On February 10 at 10:00 a.m., the seminar “Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti and Antonio Fontanesi in Japan at the End of the Nineteenth Century” will be held in the Sala dello Zodiaco at the Valentino Castle. The seminar will be given by Professor Mari Kawakami, Kyoto University of the Arts.
"Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European artists and architects were invited by Emperor Meiji to contribute to the modernization of Japan. In the same years, the country opened up to the West through the dispatch of diplomatic and exploratory missions, participation in international exhibitions, and the trade of precious and refined decorative arts objects. Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti (1843–1887), an architect, was among the Italians involved, as were, among others, the Piedmontese painter Antonio Fontanesi and the Genoese engraver Edoardo Chiossone. Cappelletti thus had the opportunity to export and experiment with a wide range of Italian—and more generally Western—architectural and construction themes, within the scope of his activities as a teacher and designer in Japan."
The presentation is part of an ongoing research project aimed at tracing the intersections between Italian and Japanese architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in continuity with the collaborative activities between the two countries promoted by the University Center for Relations with Japan, the PoliTO Japan Hub.
The seminar will be introduced by Mauro Volpiano, Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design and member of the Academic Board of the PoliTO Japan Hub. This will be followed by a brief presentation and discussion of three ongoing master’s degree theses: Francisco Abad Dellacasa, Italian Architects and Architecture in Japan from the Meiji Period to the Mid-Twentieth Century; Christian Lupo, The Reception of the Japanese House Model in Italy and the West between the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries and Lorenzo Negro, Japan Seen from Italy, Through the Lens of Architecture (1860–1945).The seminar is primarily open to postgraduate students and PhD candidates.
#JapanHub
"Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European artists and architects were invited by Emperor Meiji to contribute to the modernization of Japan. In the same years, the country opened up to the West through the dispatch of diplomatic and exploratory missions, participation in international exhibitions, and the trade of precious and refined decorative arts objects. Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti (1843–1887), an architect, was among the Italians involved, as were, among others, the Piedmontese painter Antonio Fontanesi and the Genoese engraver Edoardo Chiossone. Cappelletti thus had the opportunity to export and experiment with a wide range of Italian—and more generally Western—architectural and construction themes, within the scope of his activities as a teacher and designer in Japan."
The presentation is part of an ongoing research project aimed at tracing the intersections between Italian and Japanese architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in continuity with the collaborative activities between the two countries promoted by the University Center for Relations with Japan, the PoliTO Japan Hub.
The seminar will be introduced by Mauro Volpiano, Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design and member of the Academic Board of the PoliTO Japan Hub. This will be followed by a brief presentation and discussion of three ongoing master’s degree theses: Francisco Abad Dellacasa, Italian Architects and Architecture in Japan from the Meiji Period to the Mid-Twentieth Century; Christian Lupo, The Reception of the Japanese House Model in Italy and the West between the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries and Lorenzo Negro, Japan Seen from Italy, Through the Lens of Architecture (1860–1945).The seminar is primarily open to postgraduate students and PhD candidates.
#JapanHub