Giulia Park - The watch of the dodecahedron is a painting by Daniela Giordano which was uploaded on August 4th, 2013.
Giulia Park - The watch of the dodecahedron
Villa Giulia (Giulia Park) is one of the gardens of Palermo, Sicily, Italy, and is adjacent to the citizen Botanical Garden.... more
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Title
Giulia Park - The watch of the dodecahedron
Artist
Daniela Giordano
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Villa Giulia (Giulia Park) is one of the gardens of Palermo, Sicily, Italy, and is adjacent to the citizen Botanical Garden.
The villa of 62,500 square meters, was created at the initiative of the Magistrate La Grua between 1777 and 1778, and was named Giulia in honor of Giulia d'Avalos, wife of the viceroy Marcantonio Colonna.
The project of the park was designed by the architect Nicol�lma who planned an �enlightenment� installation: a public green rich of fountains but also of symbolic, cultural and esoteric references - a perimeter perfectly squared, in turn divided into four squares divided by their diagonals and a central space of circular shape. Square and circle, respectively earthly materiality and the divine. All symbols that refer to specific cosmogonic references : through its geometric design the Nature acts as intermediary of the configuration on the earth of a cosmic order. The route of the paths points to the symbolic "mystical journey" of the alchemists, the same as symbolic journey traveled by the Masons in their initiatory itinerary.
Notable among the various marble groups, at the exact center of the park, the clock of the dodecahedron, the cosmic symbol par excellence, or a dodecahedron where each face is a sundial designed by mathematician Lorenzo Federici. The sculpture is located at the center of a circular fountain and is supported by the statue of a young Atlas crouched.
In 1787 Johann Wolfgang Goethe described Villa Giulia as "the most beautiful corner of the earth" and it was here where - during his visits - stopped to read Homer.
About fifty years ago Villa Giulia has hosted for a decade a single lion, nicknamed Ciccio, gift of a circus passing through the City of Palermo.
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August 4th, 2013
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