Conference paper
Marmont’s and Mazzoli’s building plan in the harbour of Split
Duško Kečkemet
Abstract
During the brief period of French government, after 1807, the Dalmatia’s military commander, general and subsequently marshal, Auguste Frédéric Louis Vièsse de Marmont, and civil governor, Vicenzo Dandolo, contributed to the planning and development of Split.
Following the demolition of the Venetian fortress at the Split harbour, Marmont extended the harbour westward, providing for a number of new buildings to be built after the project of the Roman architect, Basilio Mazzoli, designed by mutual agreement and in the Neoclassical style, which were supposed to be in harmony with the façade of the nearby Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. The design of the Marmont’s and Mazzoli’s neoclassical idea is enclosed.
However, personal practical interests of the new buildings’ owners, especially following the end of the French government in 1811, did not follow the designs but resulted in the building of haphazard and aesthetically uninteresting buildings, thus destroying the Marmont’s idea of neoclassical buildings that were to be in spatial harmony with the Diocletian`s Palace façade.
Keywords
Basilio Mazzoli; Auguste de Marmont; coast of Split; Neoclassical architecture
Hrčak ID:
99693
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Publication date:
25.2.2013.
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