degradation of cultural heritage and the failure of the Italian bourgeoisie
No surprise. After decades of unnecessary alarms and restoration of very limited, as is widely expected happened: dropped 130 square feet times the Domus Aurea (belonging to the Municipality of Rome). Rediscovery in the fifteenth century in the Renaissance, visited for centuries by candlelight and released quickly from the fury of nationalist fascism, the residence of Nero is one of the founders of Western culture places. For the ancient world, the huge imperial complex, with its 80 hectares of development and gardens covering 25 percent of the urban area, is the episode for the highest penetration of the Eastern Hellenistic culture in the Roman world. To modern Europe, the rediscovery of the frescoed vaulted ceilings in the rooms filled with earth and used as the foundation of the Baths of Trajan after damnatio memoriae of Nero, inspired the revival of classical art, the grotesque and that beautiful mixture that we see in a 'infinite number of religious buildings, public buildings between four and twentieth century Europe. Two thousand years, a dense story and symbolic monuments to the roots of contemporary identity, maimed by some more rain. And degradation of an Italy that, not wanting to take care of itself, threatens to steal the West many of its founders places. course, we hasten to say cynically someone (and someone has already hastened to say so) to be collapsed is precisely one of the times of Trajan built to support its thermal baths, a symbolic return after the death of the tyrant of the areas reclaimed from the people of Rome: as if to say that if all the structures crollasseo Trajan, the Domus Aurea would return to take light where in 64 AD, the architects Severus and Celer peristyles predicted. A providential fall, then. Too bad that the whole structure is at risk today survivor. Too bad that since 1939, after the opening to the public intended by fascism, paints and sometimes suffer the continuous infiltration of lesions that obscures the walls and frescoes. Too bad that the surface to waterproof and protect both the size of a football field. Pity, then, that to prevent the disappearance of the Domus Aurea, one need only allocate tens of millions of euro and extend several square meters of housing. Just today, the technologies are more available than ever. Too bad, especially that of the Domus Aurea, is only one case among many of the accelerated destruction of the Italian artistic and archaeological heritage for millennia, albeit with ups and downs, passed on from generation to generation. Another case of collapse
announced, now is the Palatine. Lived at least XI century BC, the most famous hill of Rome is another of those places founders of Western identity. Huts occupied by the mythical Romulus, the Republican era, for the favorable exposure to the South and healthy marine winds, became an aristocratic residence. Then, the home of the emperors, the Palatine would mean well-taken well over a hill, but the realization of God, architectural and planning of power derived from his name would, in fact, that of "Palace", "Palais" in French, " Palace "in English and so on. Magnified over thousands of years in a Swiss cheese of tunnels, arcades, frescoed rooms, now threatens the Palatine, as it happened in its history, to come down. In particular, its most fragile, the one in the West. Of the poor of € 130 million needed, according to studies conducted by the property Remo Croci and delivered to the ministry for years, only eleven have been allocated, and many coins, for pity's sake, added by the World Monument Found. The restoration, insufficient, started, but if this continues, will end up as the Domus Aurea.
We can imagine that is likely to miss the Athens Acropolis, dragged downstream by a landslide, but no one is mobility? Palatine, the Domus Aurea, the list is long, from Pompeii, which each year manages to scrape together € 27 million from tickets, when to save a fortune with one with a complete renovation it would take at least 250 in single solution. Not really when you consider that recently the French Government has allocated € 500 million for the redevelopment of the Palace of Versailles.
face of this tsunami, is to do a few questions. The idea of \u200b\u200bheritage, to protect cultural heritage is relatively recent. Prefigured in the Renaissance has been implemented systematically with the rise of the bourgeoisie and its institutions. Kind of humanism and enlightened anthropocentrism recovery has been applied in a systematic and nation states rhetoric. The degradation, the breakdown, the systematic neglect - almost programmatic - of the symbols of Our historic community (now replaced by the imaginary anti-historical, typical of the new rulers, the means of mass communication) do not mean maybe the degradation, the failure of the Italian bourgeoisie?
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