Dialoghi oltre il tempo : ricerca, confronto, condivisione

As part of my current doctoral research and in line with the main theme chosen for the 2024 edition of the doctoral seminar organized by the PhD course in History, Criticism and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to consider the catalogue entry for the description of the architecture as a dialogue tool. A brief introduction will focus on the historical context when, for the first time in Italy, the public administration started an inventory of the country’s architectural heritage. Later, we will analyze different entry formats taken from the study on historical architecture cataloguing in the province of Verona. From the very first entry published in 1891, it will be possible to see the progressive growth in richness, complexity and clearness of the architectural description, especially after the foundation of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, of the Ministry of Culture. Finally, as Digital Humanities advance, new opportunities are emerging not only for the Cultural Heritage Catalogue but also, as we will see, specifically for architectural descriptions.