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Papier peint e propaganda politica: l’esempio di villa Gradenigo a Carbonera con le imprese dell’Armée d’Italie
Felle, Giovanni
2013
Abstract
Papiers peints (wallpapers) produced in the wake of the French Revolution and the formation of the Napoleonic
Empire include representations of contemporary events. For the first time, historic events known to the
general public are pasted over interior walls and those who buy them reveal, at least implicitly, their cultural
and political leanings.
The article focuses on four papiers peints from the 19th-century Parisian firm Dufour & Leroy. They are found
in the villa Gradenigo at Carbonera (near Treviso) and depict crucial episodes in the history of the Armée
d’Italie: the Passage of the Alps, the Entrance into Milan and two scenes from the Entrance into Rome.
It is a unique and hitherto unparalleled find within a private interior, not only in Italy. It speaks to the taste
of a particular patron, connected to the Gradenigo family. They are not the ancient patrician family from Rio
Marin, but another Venetian family with the same name, who were awarded a title of nobility in the 19th
century.
Series
AFAT
32
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Giovanni Felle, "Papier peint e propaganda politica: l’esempio di villa Gradenigo a Carbonera con le imprese dell’Armée d’Italie" in: "AFAT 32", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2013, pp. 129-136
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it
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