“Nella gran sala della Cancellaria”. The Ephemeral Theatre for the Amor Pudico
Abstract
The wedding between Michele Peretti, Prince of Venafro and great-nephew of Pope Sixtus V, and Anna Maria Cesi, daughter of the Duke of Ceri and cousin of Prince Federico Cesi was celebrated in the Palazzo della Cancelleria with a rich program of events. The most important of them was the staging of Iacopo Cicognini’s Amor pudico in an ephemeral theatre intentionally built in the large hall known as the Sala dei Cento Giorni (Hall of the Hundred Days), which is celebrated for the massive architectural quadrature Vasari depicted on the walls in the 1547. The digital reconstruction process of the theatre after a few literary sources and the actual form of the Hall provides the opportunity to discuss the evolution of the theatre architecture in the age in which permanent theatres were gradually being built and the mechanism of the valorisation of intangible heritage. At the same time, some elements suggest the possibility that the theatre was designed as a three-dimensional projection of Vasari’s frescoes, the result of a sort of inverted perspective process from the pictures to the physical space.
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