The representation of the memory. The analogic-digital survey of two funeral monuments in the Verano cemetery of Rome

Visited by tourists and citizens, attracted both by the beauty of the funeral monuments and both by the stories of the personalities that there are buried, the Verano has become an outdoor museum, unique for the quantity and characteristics of the testimonies: a site about the art and expression of Italian cultural Nineteenth and Twentieth century, where painters, sculptors and architects have expressed, with styles of their language of their era, works in glass, mosaic, ceramics and architecture. In the portico, designed by Virginio Vespignani, focuses an exhibition of sculptures, architectural facades and frescos (high in the lunettes of the spans), expressions of the Nineteenth academic architectural Roman school language. The Quadriportico was designed on a series of spans covered with vaults. The inner sides rhythmed by columns with Doric capital of travertine, and on the outer sides by a wall structure, for the first half, and punctual for the second. An architectural system ultimately, with a large number of tombs with stylistic references to classic models, Byzantine, Renaissance and Gothic united in two distinct types: close-fitting and free by the wall. With the intention of documenting, also to safeguard the Verano's heritage, was formed in 2013 at the Department of History, Design and Architectural Restoration of the Sapienza University of Rome, a research group. As an example of the studies conducted to date are reported in this paper two examples of investigation one for each of the two types just defined.