Architettura storicista e decorazione pittorica. Case d'abitazione degli anni dieci e venti a Padova

Until the third decade of the 1900s, pictorial decorations were often used as ornaments of the fronts of the new buildings. These decorations are present already on the drawings and are integrant part of the composition of the architecture of that period. Often they are resolved in the interaction of geometrical simple motives, in other cases they consist in more articulate representations, connected to the style of the past taken into reference for the architecture. The buildings considered, nearly always deprived of artistic value according to the set of rules in force, rise on the urban areas around the historical centre on which today the interest of the building market is concentrated, and with it a consequent, widespread, speculative interference, that doesn’t always reflect the original disposition of the architecture. In this aspect resides the actuality of the topic, centred on expressive episodes within Padua of the transformations that are operated, with regard of the pictorial decoration.