{"id":336,"date":"2008-09-15T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-11-19T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:41:43","slug":"250-forgotten-palanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"250. forgotten palanti?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagina12.com.ar\/diario\/suplementos\/m2\/10-1386-2008-03-29.html\">Alejandro Machado<\/a> should be thanked for continuing his quest to find forgotten &amp; uncatalogged masterpieces by famous Buenos Aires architects. Earlier this year, he needed help finding the location of a particular vault in Recoleta Cemetery&#8230; supposedly designed by <strong>Mario Palanti<\/strong>, architect of the Palacio Barolo on Avenida de Mayo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Palacio Barolo, Mario Palanti\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200606C19.jpg\" alt=\"Palacio Barolo, Mario Palanti\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graduating in 1909 from the same Milanese architecture school as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiocolombo.com.ar\/\">Virginio Colombo<\/a>, early recognition of Palanti&#8217;s talent brought him to Argentina the following year. A former professor included him in the team to construct the Italian pavilion for Argentina&#8217;s centennial celebrations. A hit with the public, young Palanti opened his own studio &amp; began designing for the <em>porte\u00f1o<\/em> elite. He lived in Buenos Aires until 1929 with the exception of World War I when he volunteered to serve his native country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Machado&#8217;s source material, Palanti designed the tomb of <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena<\/strong>. Big, oversized, &amp; located on a narrow walkway, it&#8217;s easy to miss &amp; even more difficult to photograph. A ring of cherub heads with wings decorate the dome, &amp; two eternal flame sculptures flank a large angel on the door. Even more stunning is the interior stained glass&#8230; only visible if the light is just right:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C10.jpg\" alt=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C12.jpg\" alt=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C11.jpg\" alt=\"Sebasti\u00e1n Vasena, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although unsigned, Machado is still trying to confirm if the Vasena vault was in fact a Palanti creation. The same source also credits Palanti for designing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=64\">Spinetto family tomb<\/a>. Could the most spectacular door in the cemetery also be the work of Palanti??<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Spinetto, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612E67.jpg\" alt=\"David Spinetto, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (24 Aug 2024):<\/strong> As it turns out, Palanti <em>did not<\/em> design the Spinetto family vault but instead oversaw its construction for Italian architect <strong>Gaetano Moretti<\/strong>&#8230; who could not come to Argentina at that time. <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=64\">More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Machado should be thanked for continuing his quest to find forgotten &amp; uncatalogged masterpieces by famous Buenos Aires architects. Earlier this year, he needed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=336\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">250. forgotten palanti?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","tag-stained-glass","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7282,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}