The Ideal City by Leonardo Savioli

“Alla ricerca della Città Ideale: Cento disegni di Savioli con frammenti sul tema di protagonisti della ricerca contemporanea” is the title of my PhD research. The corpus of the hundred tables by Leonardo Savioli, drawn during the first half of the forties, on the theme of the Ideal City, represents a little known chapter of his work, revealing a multifaceted personality of a painter, a graphic artist and an architect, a tiring diagrammatic research obtained through the constant graphic and pictorial experimentation composed of smoother stains and lumps. The drawing, a synod between architecture, graphics and painting, becomes an expressive medium through which investigating in order to clearly return the complex figure of Savioli. Savioli's drawings show, in times of destructions and misfortunes, the projecting towards a positive utopia, which does not present itself as an applicable model to any situation, but as a mental attitude, as a necessary heroic reaction to the rebuilding of Florence. The hundred tables are a hope for Florence, a precious luggage to be used when needed; they could be a set of ideas in the drawer to be pulled out at the right time.