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ARICCIAA Tribute to the Town of The GRAND TOUR

by Antonio DAL MUTO

Early 19 Century


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Antonio Dal Muto, painter and cartoonist and author of

comic book Stories of the cities. Born in Rome he lived

in Ariccia up to the age of 22 years afterwards he left

Ariccia for job reasons to go to Cesena, a town of

northern Italy. About Ariccia he has drawn the images

related to the Histoty by comics of Ancient Aricia

whose lyrics were thougt by two Ariccians A. Silvestri

and MC Vincenti, scientists and archaeologists.

The author, with this work, wished to pay tribute to his

city and help keep "afloat" the historical memory of the

city itself that in an age of globalization is increasingly

subjected to the pressure of forgetfulness.

This work was dedicated to my father Luigi, Ariccian. A.D. 2011

Translation into English is due to the Author himself, as the most of drawingshere shown: he apologizes for the mistakes


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If Rome has always attracted travelers from all over the world for its ancient

monuments, testimonies of every historical era, the area around the eternalcity attracted the interest of men of culture, artists engaged in the capture of

what was missing in Rome itself, namely, the atmosphere of the lost Arcadian

Holiness. In Rome, the ruins on which to meditate the glories of the past and

their fragility, on the territory of the Roman Castles (Castelli Romani), the

sense of that lost ancient sacredness and still they had strong impression it

prowled among woods and lakes, dwellings of the gods and nymphs.

Among these places Ariccia: ancient village that from the top of the Hill, which

still hosts it, for centuries lived in a magnificent isolation, surrounded by

ancient Woods and springs, formerly the subject of Latin writerss interest . In

this village, on the Piazza di Corte, was Martorellis Inn, one of the few,

according to Massimo d'Azeglio, in the early years of the 800, worthy of being

so named for its ability to host and service that were offered; here, artists of

Europe looking for those mythical places, connected with Roman history, were

hosted, and Ariccia, among other villages, gave the feeling that the time of

classical antiquity had never spent, passed away.


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Ariccia, in the XXIst Century


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Ariccia in the Early XIXth Century


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These places of great attraction for suggestive corners offered by a still unspoilt nature,

recall the best minds in the field of the arts and culture present in those times in Italy

and in Europe. "Coming spring to go for drawing the nature according to the usual, I

chose for my stay at the Riccia, first stop of Horace and his duct Heliodorus, duringtheir walking travel to Brindisi ..." So he wrote the artist and political, from Turin,

Massimo d'Azeglio stresses the memory of Ariccia in the nineteenth century also

known as The Riccia relating them to the ancient roman world: Horace, in fact, took

rest for the night in the small and modest Inn, as Titus Livy remembers, located in the

Valley of Ariccia, along the Via Appia.

And this village had the privilege, with Marino, Albano, Tusculum, Castelgandolfo andNemi, to be one of the stops of the Grand Tour and, thanks to it exported, in his name

and in his artistic and literary descriptions, throughout Europe. But who were

illustrious men who made stop in Ariccia, in the Martorellis Inn? Well, let's start with

Nino Costa, Italian painter of the Etruscan School of painting and pre-Raphaelite;

Pinelli, Roman, was an engraver, painter and ceramist; Joseph WilliamTurner, English

painter; Friedrich Schulchess Meyer, German painter; Peter Von Cornelius, Germanpainter; Friedrich Johann Overbeck, Swiss painter and engraver; the brothers

Ockembach, German painters and the russian painter S.F. Scedrin then, Hans Christian

Andersen, Enrich Ibsen, Barnabas Martorelli, eminent mathematician who died in the

Inn; Harry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and Stendhal and many others


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The Palace which housed the Martorellis Inn is that one inside the red frame


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Well, how could appear

Ariccia to the Italian andforeign guests at the

beginning of a century

marked by romantic

movement? To make us

an idea I made some

drawings inspired by

nineteenth-centurydrawings and photos of

Count Primoli, avid

photographer, illustrious

grandson of Bonaparte

and which had in Ariccia,

still existing, a beautiful

building.Here's the image of

Ariccia view from the

end of the large road

in Ariccia Valley


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After having

followed the route,

they arrived at the

so told devilssaddle: its the

top of the ancient

Lanuvio's Gate, the

entrance-exit gate

of the roman-time

Aricia castrum. The

gate is still intact

under almost 4

meters of earth.

The road ran along

the profile of

Roman graves. The

House-Tower here

visible was built on

a drum-like roman

tomb. On the

backgrond the

Santuary of

Galloro


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Here, we see a guy on his

donkey animal present in

large number and useful to

move and to use as cargo at

the foot of the ancient Sacred

Way, which is still climbing to

Ariccia, crossing it. It has been

using for more than two

thousand years: the Romans

used to walk along it to reach

Mons Albanus, in order to make

sacrifices on the site of the

Temple of Jupiter Latiaris and to

celebrate the Latin Ferie, the

yearly latin people Leagues

anniversary. The large boulder,

we see here, arrived there afterbeing detached from the Hill:

the small votive shrine was

placed after by a shepherd to

thank God for having avoided,

for a narrow escape, to get

crushed


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The Sacred Way,

currently known as

Coast Road, was

almost passable withgreat difficulty due to

its conditions.

Halfway up, when

Ariccia had part of its

ancient settlement in

its Valley till VI-VII

century, there was a

theater and we

suppose to be there

even though buried

by debris. Here, two

Ariccians that bring

their wares in the

village. Along this

road down the

painters to find

inspiration


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Here are two ariccianswho arrived at Roman

Gate, Porta Romana,

one of the two

entrances to the

village. From this

point you can stillenjoy a beautiful

panorama from

where you can see a

stretch of the

Tyrrhenian coast, also

enriched of history.

Just think of the

Trojan hero Aeneas,


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And here's Porta Romana or

Roman Gate, standing by

the building that housed the

gatehouse and a few

decades after the first

Giuseppine Sisters, the so-

called Large-headgears,

managed pharmacy.

By the berninian walls a Tubwashing clothes: a gift made

to ariccian women by Prince

Chigi, the Lord and the

master of the village. Who

knows how many sketches,

of these women, on paperhave been drawn by artists?

Now we look at


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better at the Porta Romana or

Roman Gate. The Gatehouse was still

active and only after the unification ofItaly it was withdrawn. Porta Romana,

as that one near to the Palazzo Chigi, I

mean Neapoletan Gate, are the

architectural solutions of Gian

Lorenzo Bernini, the famous architect

who designed and created the squarein front of Saint Peter Church in

Rome; he was called to Ariccia by one

of the Princes Chigi to lead the

accommodation of the square,

authentic lounge of the Roman

aristocracy, and the two doors.Bernini was assisted in undertaking by

skilled architects-students like

Fontana.


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We've just entered

Ariccia: we can see the

tub used by the men to

water their animals, like

horses, donkeys, sheepsand goats, whose flocks

could go freely through

the village, but, without

disturbing the walk along

the main street and the

square, Piazza di Corte.The woman we see here,

on her head is carrying

the so told "Conchetta" a

so shaped copper

container for water; it

had a bottleneck to avoidthat during the transport

the poured water was

minimized. The container

was used by the ariccians

until the early years 60

of the 900.


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Thats the little town or Village of Ariccia: the main street divides it in two parts and

arrives in Piazza di Corte, the main square. Palazzo Chigi shows itself with all its body;

Neapolitan Gate at its right side. The MartorellisInn is faces the Square


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Here is Aricia with the two bridges built shortly before the unification of Italy: two works that

broke the old insulation and the harmonic unit of the Square, which became a place of passage.

Porta Napoletana lost the use for which it was built ...


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This is a stretch of the

current Via del Parco orPark Street as it could

appear in the 800. The

houses of modest view

at the ground floor, had

cellars and stables for

animals. The majority ofpeasants who had lands,

just like vineyards or

orchard, in Ariccia Valley

or Vallericcia used to live

in the village. The stables

have remained in useuntil the early years 60

of the 900


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Now lets give a look at other Ariccian landscape foreshortenings, inspired by the Grand

tour painters works. Here we see Saint Nicolas Church built on the basement of the

ancient roman Temple, next to Roman Gate


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View of Ariccia coming from Albano, along the Old Appian way


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Outside Neaplitan Gate or Porta Napoletana: the way to Galloro. In the

background the Chigis Estate


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View of Ariccia from Albano side. The absence of the monumental Bridge, gives back of

the country, an image far more suggestive.


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View of Ariccia from Saint Rocco, on the way to Galloro. Neapolitan Gate or Porta

Napoletana in the background between Chigis Palace and the buildings which close

and face the Square.


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Outside Neapolitan Gate or Porta Napoletana. There were three streets: right the way to Galloro;

the way to the cemetery in the centre and left the road which skirted the Chigis Park and overlaps

the ancient Via Sacra (sacred way) ...


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Piazza di Corte or Court square according to the Bernini's accommodation. Martorellis Inn is located in

the building adjacent to that one with the fountain on its the short side. Facing Palazzo Chigi, the

Church of the Assumpted Mother of God, a jewel of architecture by Bernini ...


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Other Views of ARICCIA


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Views of Ariccia by the Works of the Grand Tour Painters


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Filippo Juvarra


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Joseph Lecointe


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S. F. Scedrin


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Auguste Knip


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Camille Corot


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Joseph lecointe


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Joseph Lecointe


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William Turner


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Philippe Hackert


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Van Wittel alias Vanvitelli. Italian architect of XVIIIth century


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J. Seit


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J. Seit


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L. M. Praetorius


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C. Natoire


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J. Lecointe


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Massimo DAzeglio


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E. Fries

Roman Gate


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Nino Costa. Ariccian women who spread the maize on the Square


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Nino Costa

Portrait of an ariccian Young Girl


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L. M. Praetorius. Dwelling Houses in Ariccia


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Massimo DAzeglio


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Massimo DAzeglio.

Caricatural Drawings

still present on a wall of

the room in Martorellis

Inn


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Bibliography

Vedute dei Colli Albani e di Roma-

DallAlbum di Viaggio di Charles Josepf Lecointe ( 1824 1886)De Luca Editore dArte

Francesco Petrucci

La Locanda Martorelli e il Grand Tour dItali sui Colli Albani

Comune di Ariccia 1996

Renato Lefevre

Storia e Storie dellAntichissima Ariccia

Comune di Ariccia 1996

A. Dal Muto, A.Silvestri, M.C. Vincenti

Storia di ArciAntica a Fumetti

Comune di Ariccia, Provincia di Roma, Archeoclub di Ariccia

2007


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