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MANTOVA, ASTRAL TOWN
In
1989 there was the whole astronomic car's ex novo reconstruction
of the public clock in Mantua, performed for the first time in 1473
from Bartolomeo Manfredi according to a sketch of which the
characteristics were ignored.
The
work, brought defeasible in June 1473, it was situated on its square's
"new tower", built by Luca Fancelli, in December of that
same year, and day by day it was therefore provided to make it more
beautiful. It had been craftsman the mathematician and astrologer
Bartolomeo Manfredi "of the clock", nickname inherited by
his father Giovanni, builder of a precedent clock, mentioned in the
1413. The clock which it was exposed on the tower, was a true
astronomic and astrological wonder, in which the whole town was called
to "mirror" to receive its responses, as in an oracle gold
builder, authentic cosmic image.
http://www.gorla-a.it/PiazzaErbe.htm
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ROOM OF THE WIND
Lived
by Fred II Gonzaga (this was his private room), the Chamber of the
Winds founds its program iconologic upon ancient texts of astrology
that enjoy some maximum authority in the humanistic environments of
the epoch.
Every
scene of the circles (mixed technique, fresco and temper)
contemporarily illustrates a prognostic legacy to the rising
constellations in the firmament to the zodiacal signs (realized in
gilded plaster on black fund), prepared around everything to a dense
time adorned by scenes and olimpyc divinity figures. The astrological
theme, according to the Gombrich, would be drawn by the astrological
texts of Manilio (Latin poet of the imperial age that, in polemic with
Lucrezio, believed that the universe is not governed by the fate, but
by the divine reason) and Firmico Materno.
The
registration engraved above the door that opens on the Chamber of the
Eagles (or of Fetonte): DISTAT ENIM QUAE / SYDERA You EXCIPIANT, is
drawn by the VI satire of Giovenale and it admonishes that the destiny
of the men depends on the fortunate stars or infrauste ones under
which they born.
http://www.mynet.it/mantova/arte/te/venti.htm
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THE
ZODIAC ROOM
Among the apartment of the Tapestries and the Saloon of the Rivers in
the Ducal Building in Mantua the so-called Room of the Zodiac is found,
built for the duke Guglielmo Gonzaga's will at the end of the XVI
century in the part of the building he dictates old Court. The time,
performed to fresh from Lorenzo Costa the Young, once in 1579, has to
the center of the composition Diana-moon on the wagon hauled by dogs
around which, on blue background, the figures of the Zodiac and the
constellations appear whose physiognomies are traced by groups of golden
stars. And'it was hypothesized that the decoration is a homage to the
cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, uncle of Guglielmo, to which some tied up
constellations to the histories of Ercole would allude. The fact that
the time represents a precise moment and not a generic celestial time
makes to think to reality that deals with the visualization of the duke's
horoscope. Astrea, the Virgo, constellation that Diana reaches in the
time, with the witticism «unicuique suum» it is in fact one of duke
William's enterprises. The erudite Giovanni Paolo could have been to
suggest the composition Donati, author of an astronomy book, the
Theoriches, you devote to Guglielmo or Mr. Gregorio Capiluti, and
Gradaro convent's abbot , editor of a horoscope of the duke in 1581.
http://www.italica.rai.it/rinascimento/parole_chiave/schede/mantova.htm
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