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Titolo dell'opera:

The Great Mother

Author/ School/ Dating:

The Great Mother

Object Type:

tondo

Epoca:

Inventario:

GX1993.222

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 44

Tecnica:

bronzo

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The Great Mother
Descrizione:

Bronze round worked in stiacciato.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Genoa and the Western Riviera

Author/ School/ Dating:

Genoa and the Western Riviera

Epoca:

Inventario:

GX1993.638

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 120; Larghezza: 524

Tecnica:

olio su tela

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Genoa and the Western Riviera
Descrizione:

The painting was commissioned on the occasion of the 1911 Turin Exposition by the Società anonima italiana Gio. Ansaldo Amstrong & C., which was formed in 1903 following an agreement between Gio. Ansaldo & C. and the British warship manufacturer Amstrong and dissolved in 1912. The work is mentioned in a letter dated March 22, 1911, from Carlo Manzitti, Ansaldo's chief engineer and head of relations with the executors of the pavilion in Turin, and in an article signed by Giovanni Bistolfi, commissioned by Perrone themselves for probable publication in Ansaldo promotional magazines. In this large-scale painting, Genoese painter Franz Volpe, a pupil of Cesare Viazzi, depicts in its vastness the complex and grandiose structure of Ansaldo's industrial plants, located along the Ligurian coast from Genoa to Sestri Ponente, in a city setting then in the midst of urban expansion. Triptych done in oil on canvas depicting the Ligurian coast as seen from the sea, from Genoa to Sestri Ponente. Inscriptions are visible at the bottom of the canvas identifying the portion of the painting they refer to.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Clock

Acquisizione:

Matteo Luxoro 1945 Genova - legato

Ambito culturale:

Manifattura francese

Author/ School/ Dating:

Clock

Object Type:

clock

Epoca:

Inventario:

M.G.L.786

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 44,5; Larghezza: 23; Profondità: 12,8

Tecnica:

cassa in legno di pero ebanizzato, bronzo dorato

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Un'ostinata illusione: la misurazione del tempo e gli orologi Luxoro - Genova - 2004

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Clock

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Titolo dell'opera:

Clock

Acquisizione:

Matteo Luxoro 1945 Genova - legato

Ambito culturale:

manifattura italiana

Author/ School/ Dating:

Clock

Object Type:

clock

Epoca:

Inventario:

M.G.L.1213

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 60; Larghezza: 35; Profondità: 20

Tecnica:

legno intagliato e dorato

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Un'ostinata illusione: la misurazione del tempo e gli orologi Luxoro - Genova - 2004

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Clock

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Titolo dell'opera:

Clock

Acquisizione:

Lazzaro Giovanni Battista Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Ambito culturale:

manifattura svizzera

Author/ School/ Dating:

Clock

Object Type:

pendulum

Epoca:

Inventario:

G.P.B.2721

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 77; Larghezza: 48

Tecnica:

cassa in legno laccato, bronzo sbalzato e fuso

Ultimi prestiti:

Un'ostinata illusione: la misurazione del tempo e gli orologi Luxoro - Genova - 2004

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Clock

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Titolo dell'opera:

Pilot book of the Atlantic coasts of North Africa and Spain

Acquisizione:

Y.B. Montagu

Author/ School/ Dating:

Pilot book of the Atlantic coasts of North Africa and Spain

Object Type:

pilot book

Epoca:

Inventario:

3483

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 43; Larghezza: 31

Tecnica:

pergamena- inchiostro

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Pilot book of the Atlantic coasts of North Africa and Spain
Descrizione:

Four parchment sheets of a pilot book of the Spanish and North African coasts bordering the Atlantic Ocean.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Hadley's octant

Author/ School/ Dating:

Hadley's octant

Epoca:

Inventario:

1303

Misure:

Tipo di misura: diametro; Unità di misura: mm; Valore: 59

Tecnica:

ebano/ avorio/ vetro

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Hadley's octant
Descrizione:

The octant is an instrument used primarily in navigation to measure the height of a star on the horizon line, that is, to determine the latitude of the observer's location.

It owes its name to its 45-degree sector shape of a circle, precisely the eighth part. On the curved side is an ivory graduated scale. On the center of the sector is pivoted a movable part-the alidade-that ends in a “window” through which the measurement is read.

The star is not observed directly, but by means of an interplay of mirrors, which is why the octant is called a “reflection instrument.”

The invention of the octant can be attributed to Isaac Newton although John Hadley (1682-1744) made the necessary modifications to it to make it an instrument in the 1800s for every naval officer.

Gabriele D’Annunzio. Orazione per la Sagra dei Mille

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Titolo dell'opera:

Prayer of the Feast of the Thousand

Author/ School/ Dating:

Prayer of the Feast of the Thousand

Object Type:

manuscript

Epoca:

Inventario:

A.I.M.G. 82

Misure:

Unità di misura: UNR

Tecnica:

inchiostro-carta

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Prayer of the Feast of the Thousand
Descrizione:

On 5 May 1915, the monument to the Thousand was inaugurated in the presence of Gabriele D'Annunzio as the official speaker. In his speech during the solemn ceremony – contained in forty-five handwritten autographed pages – the Vate did not limit himself to presenting Eugenio Baroni's artistic work, but with rhetorical emphasis affirmed the need for Italy's intervention in the First World War. On 24 May 1915, Italy entered the war. This is the handwritten draft of the speech given by Gabriele D'Annunzio at the inauguration of the Monument to the Thousand in Quarto on 5 May 1915.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Braga bombarda on fork

Acquisizione:

1890 Genova/ darsena - ritrovamento

Ambito culturale:

ambito genovese

Author/ School/ Dating:

Braga bombarda on fork

Object Type:

weapon

Epoca:

Inventario:

3726

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 17.5; Lunghezza: 176

Tecnica:

ferro battuto

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Braga bombarda on fork
Descrizione:

It is a swivelling artillery piece: the fork-shaped support hinged on the ship's bulwarks allowed for rapid aiming. In this case, in the absence of a wooden carriage, the ram was contained in an iron extension at the rear of the trumpet, called a braga; it was open at the top to allow the ram to be inserted and had two opposing openings into which the retaining wedge was inserted.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Portrait of a lady

Author/ School/ Dating:

Portrait of a lady

Object Type:

painting

Epoca:

Inventario:

GX1993.509

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 180; Larghezza: 80

Tecnica:

olio su tela

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Portrait of a lady
Descrizione:

After abandoning his legal studies, Geranzani devoted himself to painting by following Giovanni Quinzio's courses at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genoa. From his academic study of landscape, he soon moved on to research into Divisionist technique, arriving at a personal interpretation of pointillism characterised by a simplification and geometrialisation of forms. In 'Ritratto di signora' (Portrait of a Lady), the usual mosaic composition of his works, obtained through the use of dabs of colour, is replaced by broad brushstrokes of dark tones; but the angularity of the folds of the dress and the attention to the decorative pattern of the fabric reveal the permanence of a pictorial inspiration of Art Deco matrix. Oil on canvas depicting the left profile of a standing woman; the geometric drapery of the bodice contrasts with the soft forms of the rest of the work.

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