chiara monterumisi...the open colonnade of the southern facade carries thoughts to venice, but more...

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome 14th- 15th November 2013

Shadows of the South

Venetian fragments from Ragnar travelogue

Chiara Monterumisi Ph.D. candidate Alma Mater Studiorum. University of Bologna DA. Department of Architecture

PAUL CLEMEN

Thus in the Stockholm City Hall we meet shadows from the great municipal edificies of the whole Europe:

but in the end all these are combined, enganced and surpassed by the force of this will to express a modern way of thinking

in art.

in Johnny Roosval, Stockholms stadshus vid dess invigning midsommarafton 1923, AB G. Tisells tekn. Förlag, Stockholm 1923

Ragnar Östberg, South portico of the City Hall, 1913

© Stockholm stadsarkivet

Erik Gunnar Asplund Venice 1914 © Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet

From E. Cornell, Ragnar Östber g. Svenskt arkitekt, 1965

RAGNAR ÖSTBERG 1896-1899

ITALIEN Palermo Segesta Selinunte Agrigento Siracusa Taormina Napoli Paestum Amalfi Pompei Anacapri Roma Viterbo Perugia Orvieto Todi Assisi Chiusi Siena Firenze Pistoia Lucca Pisa Prato Pistoia

Parma Piacenza Milano Bergamo Brescia Vicenza VENEZIA Padova Verona Mantova Bologna Imola Faenza Ferrara Cesena Ravenna Firenze Roma Brindisi

ENGLAND London Windsor Eton Oxford Northleach Barford Fairford Hampnett Iffley Minstrlovell Bristol Cambridge Peterborough Lincoln York Durnham Paris

FRANKRIKE Paris Reims Campaigne Pierrefonds Amiens Beauvois Rouen Charteres Blois Tours Caen Vire Mont St. Michel Dinan Normandie Bretagne Ploërmel Sérent Auray Angers Chinon Loches Amboise Paris Avignon Nimes Arles Marseilles

TYSKLAND Berlin Dresden Praha München Sydtyskland

GREKLAND Athene Patras Olympia Korint Egina Eleuisis

SPANIEN Irún Burgos Salamanca Avila Madrid Toledo Cordoba Sevilla

BELGIEN Brussel Gent Brugge

© Kungl iga Akademien för de fria Konsterna

October 1897

© Kungl iga Akademien för de fria Konsterna

© Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet

Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Italien: spredte studier og rejseskitser, 1904

VENICE Accademia di San Giorgio

San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

San Giovanni e Paolo

San Marco

Facades decoration and reliefs

San Giorgio

Mosaics

Sculptures

Museo civico

Palazzo Loredan

San Zaccaria

R. Östberg, Sketch of pavement parterre, 1913 1914 1921

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

R. Östberg, Sketch of Piazzetta pattern , 1913

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

Map of Venice, 1500

© Museo Correr, Venezia

Map of Stockholm , 1640

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

R. Östberg, Sketches about islands evolution in Stockholm throughout the centuries

in En arkitekt antecknigar. Bilder och verk av författaren, 1928 (Eng. trans.. Notes of an architect. Drawings and projects of the author )

. THE QUEEN OF LAKE MÄLAREN

OLAUS MAGNUS , , ROME 1544

Stockholm is of course is in the midst of the water as Venice, and it is well demonstrated how both of them are

built on wooden logs...

JAKOB ZIEGLER,

1532

city and capital of Sweden, is fortified by nature and art. It lies in the middle of the lake,

such as Venice from which it gets its name, inasmuch as the piles or logs

ERIK DAHLBERG, 1698-1703, VOLUME I

-known and royal Swedish metropolis, rose up in the Svealand and was built in that portion of land

between Baltic sea and Lake Mälaren But as the city of Venice, it is composed of many islands, some of them

inhabitated

BAEDECKER, , 1878

The situation of the town on islands, on a plain , and on rocky hills , surrounded by water and islands in almost every

direction, is exceedingly picturesque. Stockholm has therefore not inaptly been called the ' Venice of the

North', and has sometimes been compared with Genua also ; but no such comparison can convey an adequate idea of

the place, which differs in many respects from all

, STOCKHOLM 1909

RAGNAR JOSEPHSON, IN , 1923

1500, Stockholm was named the the lagoon city gave just a few designing

references to his admirer Scandinavian. Recently, though, the placement on the water has inspired a couple of projects in

Stockholm. So, the Italian lagoon city has become a rare and valuable jewel for all its Scandinavian admirers. The

National Museum of Stüler and Bolinder villa of Zettervall hark back those Venetian buildings reflect their marble splendor

on the streams of the Grand Canal, as well as Rosenbad palace of Boberg with loggia faces to the water is clearly influenced

by the Venetian style. But only the Stockholm City Hall, the nostalgia and desire of Venice were really satisfied.

1901

continues to erect its buildings without harmony and appropriateness, freed from any artistic ostentation, and so not independent of foreign language, they will have to speak again the language of our Swedish past culture . 1909

The cosmopolitan character of the 19th century brought to Sweden, perhaps in a greater degree than to other civilized nations, a mixture of historic style [ ] In our country, as in many other lands, the excessive amount of foreign material has prevented the development of a uniform national type of architecture.

1901 and 1909 | TRADITION AS AN EXPRESSIVE ANTOLOGY FOR A REFOUNDATION OF NATIONAL

ARCHITECTURE

PAUL CLEMEN

Stockholm City has often been called «the Venice of the North»; but it is not till now this description has

become fact. The Piazzetta is to be found in the garden of the City Hall. The open colonnade of the southern facade

carries thoughts to Venice, but more Palazzo Correr than

in Johnny Roosval, Stockholms stadshus vid dess invigning midsommarafton 1923, AB G. Tisells tekn. Förlag, Stockholm 1923

E.G. ASPLUND, , IN , N 49, 1919 [Eng. trans. Another proposal for resolving the area of railway station] .. Klara Sjö has a great potential to become one of the most beautiful parts of the capital, his "Grand Canal"

C. JOHANSSON,

, IN , N 49, 1919 [Eng. trans. ]

... The West Wing ends with Nämndshuset and city hall with its towers. One would be almost tempted to make a comparison

between Riddarholmen and the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in front Piazzetta in Venice ...

AND THE «WATER SQUARE»

G. W. Cronquist, A view of Riddarholmen from the South portico of the

Stockholm City Hall, 1934

© Stockholm Stadsarkiv

Doge loggiato frames the view of the Isola di San Giorgio Ph. author

STROLLING ALONG THE STREETS OF

Ragnar Östberg, Photographs of Riddarholmen church

© Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet

Ragnar Östberg, Sketch of pavement pattern for City Hall courtyard , 1918

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

FLOATING THE : ARCHITECTURAL

Fabbriche nuove

Procuratio nuove and Doge palace

Isola di San Giorgio

Venetian Palaces

1909

1930

1913

1933

STOCKHOLM NÄMNDHUSET, 1909-1940

1940

1940

1939

1936

Siteplan of the Diplomatstaden, 1919

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

Designing sketch, 1912

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

Plan of the Piazza di San Marco in L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le

fabbriche e i monumenti cospicui di Venezia , 1838-1840

Ground floor Stadshuset, December 1916

© Arkitektur ochdesigncentrum,

1909

View of the model

in Arkitektur, n 41, 1911

1930

View from the Stockholm City Hall entrance

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

1939

R. Östberg, Photomontage

© Arkitektur -ochdesigncentrum

1940

Sketch

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

in L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le fabbriche e i monumenti cospicui di Venezia, 1838-1840

1930

1939

1940

1909

1554-1556

J. Sansovino, Fabbriche nuove di Rialto, Venezia

VILLA GEBER, 1911-1913

: PROVING PROJECT

Ground floor , 1912

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

Scketches about the Stockholm Stadshuset entrance, August 1909

© Stockholms Stadsarkivet

Panorama of the Diplomatstaden , 1925

© Stockholms Stadsarkiv

Estract of Carta di Venezia. Canal Grande, 1500

A VENETIAN PALACE ALONG THE FRESH MÄLAREN STREAMS

Villa Geber, 1913

© Stockholm Stadsarkivet

Diplomatstaden , 1921

© Kungliga biblioteket

POMPEI, II CENTURY B.C.

PRIENE, III-II CENTURY B.C.

The essence of the villa is to overlook the city from a distant slope outside the walls. J. Ackerman

F. Ronzani e G. Luciolli, Le fabbriche civili, ecclesiastiche e militari di Michele Sanmicheli, 1823

M. SANMICHELI,

Ragnar Östberg, villa Geber, 1913

L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le fabbriche e

i monumenti cospicui d i Venezia, 1838-1840

Hypothetical plan of the palace, in M. Tafuri, Ricerca

del Rinascimento. Principi, città, architetti, 1992)

Ragnar Östberg, villa Geber, 1913

JACOPO SANSOVINO, AND

, II libro, Venezia 1570

ANDREA PALLADIO, , 1570

Courtyard, 1918

© C. G. Rosenberg

VENETIAN ECHOES IN DECORATIVE APPARATUS

Courtyard, 1927

© C. G. Rosenberg

Palazzo Priuli a San Severo, Venice

Drawings and engravings taken from O.Sirén, Tessinska palatset,

in Ord och Bild 1913

TESSIN THE YOUNGER, 1694-1700

Francesco Sansovino, Venetia città nobilissima et singolar e, 1581

simile Renaissance artist dressing,

though Swedish cloths...

in Hakon Ahlberg, Ragnar Östber g på avstånd , in Arkitektu, 1965 (Eng. trans. Ragnar Östber g from distance )

Ragnar Östber g, 1915

© Arkitektur -och designcentrum

"Each city lives on its own memories... The Mediterranean cities do so more than

their own shadows.

Venice has become an ide

itself, sometimes tending to blend together or react against one another. Venice and that other Venice stand side by side or

inside each other. But each is vital to the other, neither can survive alone, both are Venice and the Serenissima,

image and simulacrum, history and myth

, 2003