In: The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600, 2020, p. 345-378
The “Holy Heads” of Peter and Paul, attested in the 11th century within a secondary altar of the Laurentius-Oratory in the Patriarchium Lateranense and later on inside the main altar of the Sancta Sanctorum, increased their status exponentially after having been transferred by Pope Urban V (1368-70) into the Lateran Basilica. Embedded in two huge, lavishly decorated anthropomorphic...
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In: Arte e cultura, 2020, no. 15, p. 38–57
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Stuttgart : Steiner, 2020
(Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie ; 23)
ISBN: 978-3-515-12111-8
Die Autorinnen und Autoren rekonstruieren die Bau- und Ausstattungsgeschichte der Kirchen der Stadt Rom vom 11. Jahrhundert bis an die Wende zum 14. Jahrhundert anhand von Schrift- und Bildquellen sowie Grabungs- und Baubefunden. Im vierten Band der Reihe werden insgesamt 37 Kirchen untersucht, darunter zahlreiche bekannte mittelalterliche Marienkirchen wie S. Maria Rotonda (Pantheon) oder S....
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Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2014
(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)
ISBN: 978-88-3662-981-7
«L’architecture est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes assemblés sous la lumière». Alluding to Le Corbusier’s famous statement of 1923, this collection of essays solicits critical reflection on the relationship between light and architecture, on both theoretical and practical levels. Beginning with a discussion of the problem of how to represent light and its effects within...
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In: Manipolare la luce in epoca premoderna : aspetti architettonici, artistici e filosofici = Manipulating light in premodern times : architectural, artistic, and philosophical aspects, 2014, p. 7-16
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Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2014
(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)
ISBN: 978-88-3662-721-9
Light is the essential medium across which space, forms, and colors become perceivable to the human eye. This collection of studies investigates the use of light – natural and artificial – in Christian architecture and art from late antiquity to the Baroque, revealing its complex symbolism and the modes in which it comes to be enacted. Thus, the following are analyzed: the architectonic...
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In: Manipolare la luce in epoca premoderna : aspetti architettonici, artistici e filosofici = Manipulating light in premodern times : architectural, artistic, and philosophical aspects, 2014, p. 62-83
Starting from the realization – apparently taken for granted – of the darkness of some Romanesque churches, we investigate the possibilities and valences, both aesthetic and semantic, of the purposeful deployment of illumination into the interior of sacred space according to both the specific “direction” of daylight, and the revaluation of the effects of artificial illumination by means...
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