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Culture "worldwide" in Roccasecca Volscian

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The Head of Culture, Joseph Pope, met in Rome Prof. LISA Beaven, Professor of Art History at La Trobe University - AUSTRALIA, author of an interesting work on the history of Roccasecca Volscian.

The book entitled "An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo Antiquarian and His Circle and Artistic Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2010 " , written in English, said the Popes, has an important chapter on Roccasecca Volscian, an old family feud Massimo in Rome.

Who first visit Roccasecca Volscian, can see that compared to other neighboring countries, the architectural and artistic heritage reaches high levels of beauty and splendor. Most of these cultural goods, as we shall see, bear the "signature" of a powerful man religious, political and patron, who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century, Carlo Camillo Massimo II.

He loved painting, so that take private lessons from Poussin, a painter of great reputation in Europe. He was a skilled amateur painter, so much to be part of the Gallery of Giustiniana, a catalog of the archaeological collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani .

was a patron of artists such as Poussin , Lorrain, Velasquez, Carlo Maratta.

The future Cardinal stayed for six years in Roccasecca Volscian.

In this period

builds and decorates the new Palazzo Massimo, alongside the medieval castle. In the private chapel fresco ago the Nativity.

In 1659, on the hill overlooking the town, ago to erect and decorate with frescoes the chapel of St. Raphael.

Two years later, at the foot of the mountain, in local casino, he built the shrine of Our Lady of Peace, in which one can admire the fresco depicting the Virgin and Child.

The authors of the monuments and paintings, are still not known, but certainly part of that group of famous artists who acted in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century.

The work of Charles Camillo Massimo II is not well known, but it certainly has helped write one of the most beautiful pages of art history and Roman collections of the seventeenth century.

The Prof. Lisa Beaven, thanks to its preparation and its ongoing research at the various Roman archives, including that of Massimo Family, has written an important page in the history of art local, but who has a breathing world.

The book focuses primarily on the Church of Santa Maria della Pace, a central plan in place Casini, and San Raffaele on the hill overlooking the town of the same name.

Very interesting is the study of St. Raphael's frescoes dating back to 1660/70, some copies of the pictures are even at the Uffizi in Florence, world famous.

know how that works featured in Roccasecca Volscian are known and appreciated in Australia is a credit to our small country, added the Mayor and Alderman Joseph Balz Papi.

The Mayor and the entire City Council would like to thank Prof. Lisa Beaven for the degree work, the Deputy Mayor Joseph Papi is already working to translate the Italian text, which will surely pleasure to the citizens of Roccasecca Volscian, fans and scholars of art history.