Grandstand w/ Scotti COA

tribune of Vecchia Giovanni (last quarter of the 19th century)
TRIBUNE, 1883 - 1883
Giovanni Vecchia
news second half of the century. 19th-early century XX
The large wooden three-light window is high-arched (the central arch is higher) and marked by paired columns with foliated capitals. The wood is painted and creates a bright contrast of white and blue. The lower part is decorated with a series of pointed arches surmounted by a serrated and molded frame. The central part is made up of a fretwork grille which carries out a lozenge motif in which quadrilobed elements are inscribed. A very low arch reproducing the same motifs cuts transversally into the central mirror. The upper part starting from the six rounded arches is closed by polychrome glass which also forms three circular rosettes, the central one with a polylobed internal profile bearing the coat of arms of the Douglas-Scotti Counts. The entire three-lancet window is included in a sinuous arch with oriental lines. Corresponding to this grandstand, on the opposite side, is a false "trompe l'oeil" painting on the wall which reproduces the same colours, the same layout and the same decorative elements

OBJECT
grandstand
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
wood/ carving/
glass painting/ coloring
ATTRIBUTIONS
Giovanni Vecchia
LOCATION
Gazzola (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
The tribune is cited in Prof. Felice Alessio's monograph of 1883 (pp. 55-56) as having been carried out by the carpenter-sculptor Giovanni Vecchia (son of an ancient tenant farmer of the Scotti house), to whom other works in the church of Rezzanello are also referred. The work, therefore, is pertinent to the initial phase of construction of the building and constituted the diaphragm between the presbytery and the listening place reserved for the Douglas-Scotti family. It conforms to the neo-Gothic taste of which it reveals an imaginative elaboration also due to the oriental references of the whole. Mirroring this tribune stands a fake one, painted as a fresco, which is not mentioned by Alessio, but only in the 1898 inventory of Don Alceste Scarani: it is probable, therefore, that it was built shortly after that relating to the construction of the real wooden grandstand. Other works by Vecchia are present here in the church (see cards no. 11, 12 and 18)
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL CONDITION
property Catholic religious body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800164760
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
FILING BODY
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza