“Eighteenth-century architecture in Cagliari. Churches, palaces and ephemeral apparatuses for a city that becomes Savoy” is the evocative title of the meeting (Wednesday 23 at 5 pm), which is part of the second series of events dedicated to “Cagliari and Sardinia in the eighteenth century through documentary sources”, part of the larger project “Cagliari and Sardinia in the age of the Savoy”. The evening will be introduced by Stefano Basciu, president of the University of the Environment, Landscape and Territory – Sardinia, while the presentation will be entrusted to the journalist Sergio Nuvoli.

The focus will be on a century that marked a before and after in the urban and cultural history of the Sardinian capital .

From 1720, with the passage of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Savoy monarchy, Cagliari became a laboratory of a new style, where the Baroque and Rococo taste began to merge with Piedmontese rationality and rigor. In this context, local craftsmen compared themselves with military architects and engineers from the mainland, giving life to an aesthetic hybrid that still marks the profile of the city today.

But the conference will not be limited to the analysis of buildings and construction sites: a large space will be dedicated to the so-called ephemeral architectures – catafalques, temporary theatres, sacred and profane scenography – which, despite their transitory nature, played a central role in the construction of the collective imagination and in the legitimation of the new power.

Through iconographic and documentary sources, Schirru will offer an in-depth reading of a city in transformation , where the language of architecture becomes a tool for political narration. An opportunity to look at Cagliari with new eyes, rediscovering the eighteenth-century roots of its beauty and complexity.

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