| Summary: | Examination of the view from the Saint-non expedition named «View of the rocks and Bova seashore nearby Capo Spartivento with Mt. Etna in the background» and its current photographic context, which represents a diachronic comparison among iconographical sources of different periods, is implemented with the aim to understand the evolutionary nature of this specific territorial context but, more in general, to make us to deal with landscape as a complicated notion. Landscape is an ambiguous word as a definition as well as a function. Therefore, another aim emerges, no less important; to offer a framework of incisive considerations relevant to a more general structural transformation concerning the essence of landscape and its related culture which, since its appearance in the 16th century, drives it to its formal conceptualisation in the 19th century, and from that moment to its current structure. The examined process of metamorphosis sees the transformation of landscape from a cornerstone element of an aesthetic – literary visio, (therefore only contemplative), to a scientific-functional one oriented to inspect and manage reality.
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