Palace Orgnani Agricola Di Caporiacco

The house with court and garden of the Village of Island, than today is known with the improper name of of Caporiacco, belonged in origin to the family of Brazzà which in fact the first known document refers, going back to 1717, when a Ettore di Brazzà sold it to the ducati Orgnani family for 770. It was probably be a matter of one litle house that Ferrante Orgnani, chancellor of the Common one, after little years ricostrui, giving them the aspect, at least outer, than still we admire. That the improvements have not been from little also are demonstrated from the fact that when in 1762 Victoria Orgnani, become only heir to the dead women of Ferrante, being the other brother Giovanni Batiste priest, wanted to sell the great house, churches and obtained 4,300 very ducati, piú of five times the paid price one cinquantina of years before: that it is not little, inasmuch as then the inflation was not sure galoppante as today and that lend the money to the 15 for hundreds of interest it came considered usury. New owner of divenne a tintore, a sure Gio.Batta Follini, that he possessed also filanda and a mangano, but these you did not remain that little years, from 1762 to 1768. Then the house came acquired from Agricultural the Giulio nobleman Antonio, son of that Vincenzo which the construction of the palace in Via Liruti must. In 1809, since its Vergendo son wanted to separate itself from the family, came formed the axis of the faculty that he had in common with the Vincenzo siblings and Antonio, so as to to exactly proceed to the allocation of the assets between which the two dominicali houses, one to Udine in Village of Island with court and garden, the other to Tissano. From plant attached to skill can to state that structure of building is remained until today substantially unchanged, while remains connected to the customs of the age the furnishing of the three apartments in which the house was then uniform and that it came meticulously described, from the "careghini n. 14 of Noghera with fodre marochin", to the "Bed that is cochieta of ceresar with similar testiera, pajon of tella striped, stramazzo of wool with bedside and cussini", to the "Fornimento on the smarito wall of shaved green, with two fodrati pieces porter two of tella". Of the descendants of Vincenzo and the Antonio, that they continued living in Village of Island for all 1800's, most illustrious she was the Ing. Agricultural Augusto, singular figure of student that, after are taken care of physical and mathematical sciences, of architecture and decoration, got passionate itself so to the progresses that went making the photography to abandon itself nearly exclusively to quest? art. It operated with intelligence and competence, to provoke the admiration of the contemporaries which it introduced its images in the exposures anniversaries of Fine Arts and trades. It produced a lot sure, but all it has gone dispersed or destroyed. Its image remains only one, a calotipo of 1855 that represents the facade of the Basilica of S. Ambrogio to Milan and that the ancient photography executed from a friulano can be considered piú. On the back, conte the Enrico of the Torso that possessed it and that in 1912 it it gave to the Museum of Independence of Milan (hour is in the collection of the Bertarelli Press) wrote of the Agricultural one: "most passionate amateur of photography, in times in which quest? art was still to its primordi. It seems indeed that the same one is died in 1875 poisoned from the substances chemistries that manipulated to such scope ". Died also the Girolamo brother in the 1880 and estintosi this branch of the family, the assets went uniforms for testament between the Common one of Udine, Julia Conti and Camilla Ceriani, respective mother and moglie of Girolamo. This last one but went to inhabit to Venice, leaving the house in use to just the doctor, dottor the Equal Riccardo, medical head physician of the Civil Hospital, son of the illustrious Anton Giuseppe and generates of the Giulio student Andrea Pirona. At the beginning of the century the house returned to being inhabited from one descendant of the Orgnani, Elodia, daughter of Gio.Batta and Agricultural Latin, when this went spouse in 1904 to conte the Gino Andrea di Caporiacco, then Podestà of Udine. Orgnani house - Agricultural - of Caporiacco is a enough modest construction that is developed enough for a height of three plans on a forehead along, with an ennobled facade is from the splendid settecentesche rail-guards of various invoice that proteggono the windows of the flat earth, is from the portoncino centers them of bugnato income in, with arc to all sixth whose key of time is constituted from one pleasant, how much unusual one, head of woman with elmo piumato (Minerva); over the portone, one window-balcony with pilastrini and turns with large mask, sormontata from an eardrum. Portone, window and eardrum form, in the vision, only slanciato body jutting out, that it contributes to break monotona the ripetitività of facciata.I1 the side on the courtyard-garden has anch' it in the part centers them its curious aspect piú: a double scale that leads in house through one door window not great dimension, to time, sormontata from an analogous opening with poggiolo from the beautiful settecentesca bombata rail-guard. In house however, after the modifications of XIX the century, it is entered from a portone that it gives on the left side of the palace: in the sottoportico a scale is opened, leaves in stone and part in wood, with railing to piolini ottocenteschi (nearly all in wood), in whose space some faded recently rifared nineteenth-century decorations were caught a glimpse. Ottocenteschi is pure frescoes to it that inner they embellish the rooms of the noble plan. Draft for the piú of a decoration that without to reach to narcotic outcomes turns out equally gradevole and not far from the way of Giuseppe Borsato: they are festoni of flowers from the delicate tones, tiny little figures of genietti that they occupy with light grace the rectangular specchiature that with to the thin ones you adorned, containing male medaglioni in monochromium with witness or feminine encircles to you from crowns of flowers, subdivides the walls. Of the same tenor the decoration of the ceiling impreziosito from light frames in stucco white man. Where instead it frescoes to it assume grandiloquent tones, it is in one room, probably of representation. The compositions are made wide here are in the cold and academic architectonic view that fills up for entire the riquadro of the greater wall, are in the allegorical subjects, reported to the limbs, with little figures to all largeness on the immense background of the sky with rare point out landscaped. Of a sure interest the scene centers them of the ceiling, within an octagon, representing Apollo that guides one quadriga between a corteggio of amorini in flight. All the paintings of this room, for sure work of local artist, are conduct in the full respect of canoni of the style the Empire for which, beyond whichever judgment of merit rendered for other difficult one from inadequate and scorretti the restorations, they will go watched like document of the dominant culture in XIX the century. In I fresco over the perspective can be read the written one: A.D. MDCCLXI/REST. GORI R./MCMLXXXI in a cartiglio. From it we know the year of the restoration and the name of the painter who executed it. We think instead date 1761 not possible: it is instead possible that the Gori has forgotten one C (and therefore 1861) or better still that has transformed the third C in L: and therefore 1811, that it could also be one given acceptable for such type of painting.

Photos and description are drawn give "Raccontare Udine, vicende di case e palazzi" Elio Bartolini, Giuseppe Bergamini, Lelia Sereni.