Military engineers

The definitive passage of Sardinia to Savoy in 1718 does not mark an interruption of the factories in progress, marked by the adherence to the late Baroque language, destined to last until the end of the century in a series of churches that combine elements of local tradition with mannerism of the sixteenth century and of seventeenth-century baroque.

Since 1720, the Savoy government has sent valuable military engineers to Sardinia, first to strengthen the fortifications and modernize bridges and roads, who are then also interested in restoring old buildings and designing new ones. Through them, the island's culture is Italianized, adhering to Ligurian-Piedmontese late baroque styles.

These are also disseminated with the importation of statues and marble furnishings (altars, pallets, pulpits, balustrades, baptismal fonts), valuable silver artifacts and precious fabrics.

The alignment with the trends of Italian artistic environments intensified in the nineteenth century with the work of some architects who were native to the island but trained in Turin, aware of the neoclassical forms that were spreading in Europe. Churches are built whose architectural syntax reveals full adherence to the classicist language.

The landscape of civil construction also reflects the various orientations of the cultural trends of the time, while the ever-looming need to defend coastal centers push the Savoy monarchy to a policy of repopulation the islands along the southwestern coast of Sardinia, which includes among its results the urban planning of Calasetta and Carloforte.

Update

20/9/2023 - 11:27