Visual influences, from the census to a system Art and architecture between “church” and “territory” in Bologna

Abstract

Starting from the census conducted on Bolognese churches and their architectural and artistic heritage, the authors introduces some critical analysis on the picked material for each area of interest. After the census published by Henry Corty (1844), fundamental reference for any preliminary investigation on the Diocese churches till today, this is the first experience able to evaluate the real scope of ecclesiastical Bolognese patrimony. Unlike the nineteenth-century studies, they want to show how the currenty research has founded a new system of data collection on the Bolognese surrounding, compatible with the actual methodologies of historical artistic investigation and artworks conservation, as well as the actual demands about their destination. In this four-handed paper, some case studies, focused on little known buildings and decorative complexes, will be submitted. The intersection among architectural, decorative and liturgical data reveal unpublished relationship between visual languages and new system connecting “church” and “territory”.