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GARDEN AND LAKE. THE WATER MIRROR FROM ILLUSION TO REALITY
Knowing and revaluating lake landscapes in Italy and in Europe
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| FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER |
Inaugural Lecture and 1st Session
9 am-1 pm - Grand Hotel Majestic (Toscanini Room) |
| Introduction to the Conference - Renata Lodari |
| Welcome from the President of the Regione Piemonte, Mercedes Bresso |
Speeches of the Authorities:
Lisa Accurti, Soprintendenza BAP of Piemonte • Paolo Ravaioli, President of the Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola • Claudio Zanotti, Mayor of the Comune di Verbania |
| Gianni Pizzigoni - Presentation of the Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania (Landscape Museum): “Promoting knowledge and protection of the landscape” |
| Luigi Zangheri - Knowing and revaluating historic gardens and cultural landscapes |
The lake as a mirror. Literary, historical and philosophical aspects
The first Session will discuss literary and philosophical inspirations that have promoted the presence of water in the garden as a scenographic element. The history of gardens mirrored by water will be presented through descriptions and images from Renaissance to Romanticism.
Session beginning at 10.30 am - Chairman: Marcello Fagiolo |
| Mino Gabriele - Water as a creative element and as a cosmological symbol: the Venus Balneum in ‘Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’ |
| Gianni Venturi - The garden and the lake. Literary and historical aspects from the 17th to the 18th century |
| Michel Racine – Success of the landscape garden lake in arts and literature in France |
| Francesca Orestano - Lake and landscape in the English cultural tradition: from the landscape garden to the “Lake District” |
2nd Session
3 pm-6 pm - Grand Hotel Majestic (Toscanini Room) |
Lake garden and garden lake
The second Session will discuss the idea of nature underlying the birth of the English landscape garden. Having a lake as a central feature this kind of garden got known in all Europe thanks to printings and early works focusing on the landscape. The fascinating theme of gardens delimited by water and the interest of philosophers, writers and artists for the island garden both in representations and in real achievements will also be discussed.
Session beginning at 3.00 pm - Chairman: Laura Sabrina Pelissetti |
| Peter Goodchild - Lakes and The English Garden: The Origins and Development of a Theme |
| Lena Löfgren Uppsäll - From the lake as a mirroir – inspiration, illusions and realization of water as an element in the Baroque and English gardens of Drottningholm, Sweden |
| Vincenzo Cazzato, Marcello Fagiolo - The garden and the island between illusion and literary inspiration |
| Margherita Azzi Visentini - The dream comes true: the Borromean Isola Bella of Lago Maggiore between theory and practice |
| SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER |
3rd Session
9 am-0.30 pm - Grand Hotel Majestic (Toscanini Room) |
The lakeside garden and its environment. Proposals for research and interpretation
The third Session will discuss the influence of the lake environment in the composition of gardens located near a lake. Studying the geographical environmental and botanical features is a necessary first step towards protection and revaluation of the lake gardens and their landscape.
Session beginning at 9.30 am - Chairmen: Rosanna Caramiello, Renata Lodari |
| Dino Gavinelli, Davide Papotti - Nature and culture in the landscape of European lakes: a geographical approach |
| Vittorio Ingegnoli - Ecological characters of gardens in the landscapes of the lake littorals in the Pre-Alpine area |
| Annalisa Calcagno Maniglio - Interpretation and revaluation of lake landscape components in the design of parks and gardens |
| Federico Fontana - Historical gardens: considerations about application of the “European Landscape Convention” in Italy |
| Ermanno De Biaggi - Regione Piemonte safeguarding activities for historic gardens, under Regional Act n.22/83 for the protection of areas of botanical interest |
4th Session and End of the Conference
2 pm-6.30 pm - Grand Hotel Majestic (Toscanini Room) |
Lake gardens in Europe: management and revaluation
The forth Session considers some themes related to conservation and management methods. Some significant examples in Italy and in Europe will be introduced focusing on specific problems and proposals aiming at the revaluation of Italian and European lake gardens.
Session beginning at 2.00 pm - Chairman: Pier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi |
| Inka Truxova - The Lednice-Valtice complex |
| Shelagh Newman - The Lakeland Horticultural Society. Planting a garden in sympathy with English Lakeland |
3.30 pm – A comparison of experiences:
Lake gardens and cultural landscapes in Europe
Inken Formann, Germany • Géza Hajòs, Austria • Eeva Ruoff, Finland • Kristóf Fatsar, Hungary • Indre Grazuleviciute, Lithuania • Stéla Drucioc, Moldova |
| 6.00 pm Conference closing speech - Luigi Zangheri |
| Presentation of the ICOMOS-IFLA Document for the inventory and cataloguing of historic gardens - Sonia Berjman and Mónica Luengo |
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