Il canale Cavour e le risaie: iconografia del paesaggio risicolo piemontese in trasformazione.

The research field is the landscape shaped from the early 19th century in the Piedmont plain among Vercelli, Novara and the Lomellina region after the Cavour canal construction (a hydraulic engineering work realized from the 1863 till the 1866 to mainly support the rice cultivation) whose effects have deeply characterized the agricultural landscape provoking cultural, social and architectural phenomena which became later a local landmark. Through the comparison between the cartography of the pre or post Cavour canal construction (from the teresian cadastre to the 21st century maps), the iconography, such us Gazzone or Ravello’s paintings, the first pictures from the Touring Italian Club Archive, or even some movies, as Riso Amaro and La Risaia, and the latest documentaries, the peculiar elements of this landscape have been identified in order to better understand this territory and be aware of which context features preserve in case of safeguard or valorization of this heritage.