A seminar on Michele Sanmicheli was organised on 28 September in Porta Palio (Verona) by the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence.

Four hundred and sixty-five years after the death of the Veronese architect, a multidisciplinary study day investigated some aspects of the work of one of the most significant 16th-century architects and his legacy in contemporary architectural culture.
Thanks to professors Alessandro Brodini and Michelangelo Pivetta and the commitment of the Società Mutuo Soccorso Porta Palio, some of the most renowned scholars and researchers will meet in order to focus attention on Michele Sanmicheli as a primary author of the first half of the 16th century after decades of silence.

The DAda-LAB will be present at the initiative, during which the work carried out by professors, researchers and students as part of the digitisation of the city’s fortified walls. This stratified defensive system, designed in the 1500s by architect Michele Sanmicheli, constitutes one of the cornerstones on which the city’s UNESCO declaration is based, expressing an international historical and cultural value waiting to be fully rediscovered and enhanced.

The research, initiated in 2016 by a collaboration with the Società di Mutuo Soccorso Porta Palio, is now governed by an agreement with the Municipality of Verona and is still ongoing.

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