Una donna o una ragazza in un abito ginocchio-lunghezza tiene uno spruzzo di fiori aloft mentre soffia un corno in questo affascinante dettaglio di arte rustico sgraffito accanto ad una iscrizione datata 1664 sulla facciata di una casa tradizionale Engadiner ad Ardez nella bassa Engadina Valle, Graubünden o Grigioni cantone, Svizzera orientale.
1318 x 1977 px | 22,3 x 33,5 cm | 8,8 x 13,2 inches | 150dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 luglio 2007
Ubicazione:
Ardez, Graubünden or Grisons canton, eastern Switzerland
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Ardez, Graubünden or Grisons canton, eastern Switzerland: a woman or girl in a knee-length dress holds up a spray of flowers as she blows a horn beside the border of an inscription in the Rhaeto-Romance or Romansh language, dated 1664, in a charming detail of rustic sgraffito art on the facade of a traditional Engadiner house. Ardez, in the Lower Engadine Valley, is renowned for carefully restored 16th and 17th century houses decorated with heraldic symbols, Romansh inscriptions and artworks, either scratched in sgraffito or painted. Sgraffito is the ancient artistic technique of scratching or cutting away parts of a surface layer of plaster, stucco or paint to expose a different colour or texture. Its heyday in Graubünden was in the 1600s and 1700s, but the craft was revived in the early 1900s amid fresh appreciation of traditional regional artistic styles. In the Lower Engadine, Iachen Ulrich Könz made an inventory of sgraffito facades and restored about 30 of them in his home village, Guarda. His sons, Constant and Steivan Liun Könz, took the craft to a new level by no longer adhering to traditional forms and motifs. They enriched more than 100 historic Engadine facades, including some in Ardez, with dragons, fish or mermaids, and added decorative sgraffito to more modern buildings. Today, Graubünden artists and craftsmen use sgraffito both in restoration work and new build projects, with knowledge of the craft passed on via courses and seminars. A majority of Ardez residents speak Romansh, a legacy language of the ancient Roman Empire. It was recognised as among the national languages of Switzerland in 1938 and in 2000, there about 60, 000 Swiss people who regularly spoke it. In 2019, around 40, 000 Swiss regarded Romansh as their main language. D0872.B0442.B
