A finely interwoven areas of expertise are needed to be able to read the complex signs in an ancient monument and this extremely specialized knowledge along with its respective disciplines generally chooses from its own ambits, creating huge barriers with other disciplines. In the case of the Minerva Garden, these barriers have been broken down by a multidisciplinary and innovative approach that has contributed to their restoration. Academics in the history of ideas and architectural design, historians and modern art historians, botanists and curators of botanical gardens, philologists and experts in visual perception are only some of the areas of expertise that have gravitated around the reconstruction of these Garden. They can, however, all be considered archaeologists of a past knowledge and the reconstruction of its ancient forms: in Salerno they have had the collaboration of new explorers, specialists in computerized images, capable of blending nature with culture, texts with images, to recompose and bring to light the contents of a part of the history of this city. This history, the Minerva Garden, the Arechi Castle, several illuminated botanic manuscripts from Salerno and a pharmacopoeia constitute the elements of this research, which provides a vital source of future investigations.

«From Salerno’s Minerva Garden to the illuminated Herbaria of the Circa instans: a Path without Boundaries»

CAPONE, Paola
2010-01-01

Abstract

A finely interwoven areas of expertise are needed to be able to read the complex signs in an ancient monument and this extremely specialized knowledge along with its respective disciplines generally chooses from its own ambits, creating huge barriers with other disciplines. In the case of the Minerva Garden, these barriers have been broken down by a multidisciplinary and innovative approach that has contributed to their restoration. Academics in the history of ideas and architectural design, historians and modern art historians, botanists and curators of botanical gardens, philologists and experts in visual perception are only some of the areas of expertise that have gravitated around the reconstruction of these Garden. They can, however, all be considered archaeologists of a past knowledge and the reconstruction of its ancient forms: in Salerno they have had the collaboration of new explorers, specialists in computerized images, capable of blending nature with culture, texts with images, to recompose and bring to light the contents of a part of the history of this city. This history, the Minerva Garden, the Arechi Castle, several illuminated botanic manuscripts from Salerno and a pharmacopoeia constitute the elements of this research, which provides a vital source of future investigations.
2010
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