{"id":20422,"date":"2020-12-22T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=opere&#038;p=20422"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:03:20","slug":"carlo-lucangelis-wooden-model-of-the-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"opere","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/opere\/carlo-lucangelis-wooden-model-of-the-colosseum\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Lucangeli&#8217;s wooden model of the Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Between <b>1790 and 1812<\/b>, in the midst of a period of renewed interest towards ancient monuments and at the dawn of the first excavations that would eventually make the Amphitheater complete once again, the architect and scenographer <b>Carlo Lucangeli<\/b> created the scale model (1:60) of the Colosseum. Comprised of <b>60 distinct sections, assembled in 5 concentric bands<\/b>, the model is the result of detailed studies of the monument\u2019s architecture and of the first investigations conducted in 1795 beneath the arena floor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Poplar wood was used for the model\u2019s structural elements, beech for the columns, architraves and ledges, stucco for the capitals, lead for the railings, bone for the pulleys: in this way, each of the monument\u2019s features was captured in great detail, while the delicate chromatic effects of oil paint were used to give the travertine its characteristic bone white hue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Lucangeli, who died in 1812, was not able to complete the model, and so it was finished by his brother-in-law <b>Paolo Dalbono<\/b>. It was in fact Dalbono who added, among other things, the statues on the fa\u00e7ade, the <i>hypogea<\/i> and the <i>velarium<\/i> (now lost).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Despite its small size (<b>height 82.5 cm; longest axis 318 cm; shortest axis 261 cm<\/b>), this model has helped provide a clear idea of the complexity and accuracy of the monument\u2019s architecture, combining the appeal of set design with a rigorous attention to detail and thus becoming a source of inspiration and object of study for the architects of its time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3505,"template":"","collezioni":[86],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opere"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20424,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20422\/revisions\/20424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collezioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collezioni?post=20422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}