Notebook of travel through the garden

Name: Notebook of travel through the garden
Start: 2024-06-01T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Giardino Bortolotti detto dei Ciucioi

Saturday 1 June, 14:30Passed

Conditions

registration fee. 10,00 Euro (includes everything you need to draw)

Registration

©Studio d'arte Andromeda

Notebook of travel through the garden

Quick sketches of architectural and floral views

Curated by Umberto Rigotti - Andromeda Art Studio

Small group tour through the garden, to fix architectural and botanical details on the notebook in "quick sketch" mode. Material used: black watercolor pencil, cubes of dark Siena earth watercolor and brushes with water tank (material provided by the organization and included in the participation fee)

Types of events

Workshop / Demonstration / Technical show

2024 Theme

The five senses in the garden

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Conditions for participation

Registration required

Type of audience

Adult, Youth (15 - 20 years), Schools

About the location

Giardino Bortolotti detto dei Ciucioi

Vicolo dei Ciucioi, 1 - 38015 LAVIS (TN)

Provincia di Trento
Trentino-Alto Adige

The unique creation of a singular character, the Bortolotti Garden known as dei Ciucioi - (name crippled from the German name Zum Zoll = at customs) - exemplifies the peculiarity of the architecture of greenery in the Alpine context. The complex bears the name of its creator, Tommaso Bortolotti (Lavis, 1796-1872), who dedicated every resource to the realization of his visionary project articulated in a mysterious initiatory path that goes up seven levels of terraces, characterized by surprising constructive artifices functional to the cultivation of citrus fruits and Mediterranean plants. After the death of the owner, the architecture remained substantially intact until the first decades of the twentieth century, while the original vegetation began a progressive decline; during the century, the garden, subject to many changes of ownership, lost its formal characteristics, with the advance of the weeding vegetation, widespread collapses of the side terraces and the leaching of the lime