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Archeology-1: Works
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Archeology-2: Side
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Archeology-3: Ephesos
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Archeology-4: Hierapolis
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Archeology-5: Archive
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PAOLO VERZONE (1902-1982) A JOURNEY IN TIME AND SPACE
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Curators: , , . An expert in the history of medieval Byzantine and ancient architecture, a designer and restorer, full and emeritus professor of Turin Polytechnic, founder of the Italian Archeological Mission in Hierapolis, Phrygia. was born in Vercelli in 1902 and earned his degree in Civil Engineering in Turin,23 years later. Barely 26 years old, he was appointed to restore the exposition centre of Casa Alciati of the Leone Museum in Vercelli, which together with his works on the Basilica of St Andrew, soon after, form the most significant and identifying examples of his way of conceiving the practice of architectonic restoration. A restoration inspired "by the concept of conservation and renewal of the antique remains but critical of works of reintegration which, though scientifically proven, change and sacrifice the originality of the work." After the 1930’s, he concentrated on studying history and his masters were the American and the Catalan . From these studies, he developed a personal method of research, based on observation, timely and personally-conducted surveys and the complete understanding of the architectonic work by detailed and ‘re-lived’ knowledge of its sources. is now identified with the Scuola Romana and will soon also be identified with international historical and archeological culture. Turkey, above all, provides the backdrop for his activities, from teaching at the Istanbul Technical University, to the excavations in Side, Pamphilia, to the founding of the Mission in Hierapolis, Phrygia (1957) which is still today the most ouystanding and substantial Italian archeological research project in the land previously known as, Asia Minor. Paolo Verzone died in Turin on September 3, 1986, leaving behind him a scientific and cultural heredity that is waiting to be collected and receive its rightful place in the panorama of Italian and international historical studies. In recent years, architects and historians have returned to and confirmed the validity and contemporaneity of Verzone's rational method of studying historical architecture. This Exhibition titled "Paolo Verzone (1902-1982) A Journey in Time and Space" was prepared by Turin Polytechnic and exhibited in ITU Faculty of Architecture last year. The exhibition was transferred to the Museum of Architecture with contributions from the ITU Faculty of Architecture. Materials, Documents and Visuals used in this exhibition belong to the Paolo Verzone Fund and Turin Polytechnic archive.
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Archeology-1: Works
"...Circumstance has allowed me to live for years in the ancient capital of the Byzantine empire, to travel far and wide in Anatolia and to undertake many excavation campaigns in Hierapolis in Phrygia. Thus I became familiar with the monuments of Christian art in ancient Constantinople and Asia Minor, and with th...
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Archeology-2: Side
"Arif Müfid Mansel ...director of the excavations has asked me to conduct the survey and make an ideal reconstruction of the monument" (P. Verzone)
The ancient Hellenistic-Roman port city of Side in Pamphylia (on the southwestern coast of Turkey) was rediscovered in the 19th century by European trave...
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Archeology-3: Ephesos
"I could see for myself... and I could instead recognize..." (P. Verzone)
At the end of the 19th century, and for the first time in the modern era, the site where the Basilica of St. Jean had been erected was found, in the vicinity of the modern city of Selcuk Turkey; the results of the first archeologica...
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Archeology-4: Hierapolis
"the first campaign... in the ancient city of Hierapolis, a place now deserted, began on August 6, 1957..." (P. Verzone)
In 1957 Paolo Verzone, a lecturer at the University of Istanbul since 1952, received permission from the Turkish Government to undertake the first campaign of the Italian Archeolo...
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Archeology-5: Archive
The body of material collected by Paolo Verzoneduring the course of his career forms the Verzone Fund which is preserved in the Town-Housing Department of Torino Polytechnic.
The Fund consists of: photographic negatives and prints, surveys, sketches of architecture and decorative details, manuscripts, writ...
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Guest Book
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