{"id":894,"date":"2021-03-05T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/?page_id=894"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T09:50:02","slug":"the-museum-of-gypsum-ceilings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/the-museum-of-gypsum-ceilings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of gypsum ceilings"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_2f7fadaf height_medium width_full\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_middle type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container us_animate_afb\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3 class=\"w-text us_custom_d44d8758 has_text_color\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">HISTORY OF FIELD RESEARCH<\/span><\/span><\/h3><h1 class=\"w-post-elm post_title us_custom_0c4dbdce has_text_color entry-title color_link_inherit\">The Museum of gypsum ceilings<\/h1><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><div class=\"w-image align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"86\" height=\"13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Forma-1_bianco.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_6334cea4 height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container us_animate_afl\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4 class=\"w-text\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">TIMETABLES AND TICKETS<\/span><\/span><\/h4><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong>SATURDAY AND SUNDAY<\/strong><br \/>\nfrom 10.30 to 18.30 (last visit at 17.30)<\/p>\n<p>the museum is always open by reservation for groups of min. 20 people<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Individual visitors<\/strong>: \u20ac7.00\u00a0for both museums &#8211; Plaster Ceiling Museum + Landscape Theater; \u20ac5.00 for a single museum \u2013 Plaster Ceiling Museum or Landscape Theatre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family ticket<\/strong>: 10,00 \u20ac<\/p>\n<p><b>groups <\/b>(upon reservation): \u20ac4.00 for one museum only and \u20ac6.00 for both museums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free<\/strong> for residents of Maglianesi, for children up to 14 years of age, for holders of the Torino Musei pass and for visitors with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACTS<br \/>\n<\/strong>BAROLO &amp; CASTLES FOUNDATION<br \/>\n+39 0173 38 66 97<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_2\" href=\"mailto:castellomagliano@barolofoundation.it\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">BOOKING WITH AN EMAIL<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container us_animate_afr\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner us_custom_51e95ddd\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4 class=\"w-text us_custom_0a123172\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">THIS IS THE IDEA OF<\/span><\/span><\/h4><h2 class=\"w-text\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">Museum of plaster ceilings<\/span><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the afternoon of the first August Sunday in 1971, a small group of five friends was setting up an old little cart kept under the porch of an ancient uninhabited house in San Antonio of Magliano Alfieri. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the day of the traditional country festival of San Gervasio, in the town of Neive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_b4fb5e47 height_auto width_full\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_bottom type_default reversed stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container has_bg_color\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner us_custom_bb3ac4ca\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner us_custom_64d43d82\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-separator size_custom\" style=\"height:14rem\" id=\"af7f\"><style>@media(max-width:600px){ #af7f{height:4rem!important}}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>That group of young friends would have cleaned the cart well, would have decorated it with branches and then would have trotted along the six kilometres of roads shaded by poplars, elders and gaggias, which separate San Antonio from San Gervasio.<\/p>\n<p>They worked joking and drinking wine directly from the neck of a dark bottle and someone, who perhaps kept his eyes up for drinking, suddenly noticed, drawn on a fragment of flat whitish stone, placed in a layer with other fragments to fill a wall of raw bricks, a very strange figure: cheerful little putti, a little hidden by the underlying bricks, held up a ribbon in the manner of a child intent on jumping with a rope. What was that figurine doing, nestled among the dusty bricks of an old, crumbling porch? His secret was unexpectedly revealed twenty days later by the Turin newspaper \u201c<em>La Stampa<\/em>\u201d which on 26 August published an article by Marziano Bernardi entitled: <em>rustic Art in Piedmont<\/em> on the third page.<\/p>\n<p>The writing spoke about a surprising discovery illustrated in &#8220;<em>A very careful study by a young talented Fine Arts official, Enrica Fiandra, published in the Palladio magazine with the title&#8221; The plaster ceilings in the Lower Monferrato<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_eeca8468 height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_middle type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_7baba3f6\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happiness starts from the ceiling<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-image us_custom_9a17161c align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"86\" height=\"13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Forma-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_efc17075 height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_middle type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container us_animate_afl\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner us_custom_cb730b23\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4 class=\"w-text us_custom_e28183d5\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">IN THE CASTLE ROOMS<\/span><\/span><\/h4><h2 class=\"w-text us_custom_e28183d5\"><span 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class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The extraordinary phenomenon of decorated ceilings, made in humble homes, had until then completely escaped art scholars and ethnographers and its discovery helped to correct the distorted image of a Piedmontese peasant lacking creativity and aesthetic taste. The five friends, after reading the article, immediately connected their little cherub with the Monferrato &#8220;plasters&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That consideration gave way to conduct a small investigation in Magliano and in the neighbouring countries. In a few months, still intact ceilings were found and photographed and various fragments were recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a very particular construction technique mainly widespread in peasant houses: horizontal connections formed by load-bearing gypsum panels were cast in place between a framework of wooden beams and joists, on wooden matrices with a negative engraved decorative motif, which remained positive on the panel. The oldest dated attic, found in a farmhouse in\u201d Vezza d\u2019Alba\u201d, brings the date of 1580 and the most recent examples date back to the mid-nineteenth century.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside the diffusion areas, everything was done with gypsum, raw and cut into blocks it was used to build elevation walls, cooked and ground was the main component of the mortar to tie bricks of the vaults and walls, it was used as fertilizer in agriculture\u2026 and of course it was the raw material to build the floors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrica Fiandra\u2019s research, central Inspector of the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage,\u00a0 also aimed at arousing the interest of the owners and regional bodies responsible for the protection of our cultural heritage around that particular testimony of peasant culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0 1972 summer, those young people from Magliano who in the meantime had increased in number, led by Antonio Adriano, began to work for the creation of a <em>Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions<\/em>. They came into contact with Enrica Fiandra to whom they sent the first data of their research: from the encounter between the two experiences, the idea was born of creating a<em> Documentation Center on the culture of gypsum<\/em> in the castle of Magliano which on 27 September 2002 was inaugurated in its definitive preparation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4 class=\"w-text\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">AMONG THE HILLS OF THE ROERO<\/span><\/span><\/h4><h2 class=\"w-text\"><span class=\"w-text-h\"><span class=\"w-text-value\">THE LANDSCAPE THEATER<\/span><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1 muovi icon_atright\" title=\"The Landscape Theater\" href=\"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/the-landscape-theater\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">EXPLORE<\/span><i class=\"fal fa-horizontal-rule\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF FIELD RESEARCHThe Museum of gypsum ceilingsTIMETABLES AND TICKETSSATURDAY AND SUNDAY from 10.30 to 18.30 (last visit at 17.30) the museum is always open by reservation for groups of min. 20 people PRICE Individual visitors: \u20ac7.00\u00a0for both museums &#8211; Plaster Ceiling Museum + Landscape Theater; \u20ac5.00 for a single museum \u2013 Plaster Ceiling Museum...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions\/1114\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellodimaglianoalfieri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}