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Gaetano CURZI, Maria Antonella MADONNA, Stefania PAONE e Maria Cristina ROSSI (a cura di) Conversano nel medioevo. Storia, arte e cultura del territorio tra IX e XIV secolo, Campisano Editore, Roma, 2018 (Collana: Saggi di Storia dell’Arte, 56), pp. 332, ill. in B/N e colore
Full text linkAirola (BN), chiesa monastica di San Gabriele
Full text linkAnalysis of the paintings of the monastic church of San Gabriele (near Benevento) recently discovered by the Author under the convent of the Passionist Fathers on the hill of Monteoliveto (11th century). Apsidal themes: Virgin enthroned with saints, Transfiguration, Deesis (?); on the neighboring walls: hagiographic scene with Saint Nicholas, Saint Theodore on horseback piercing the dragon, Pentecost (?)
Arte bizantina a Lentini. Opere e tradizioni da un’antica città della Sicilia orientale (VI-XIII secolo)
No full textQuesto libro prende in esame, grazie ad indagini sul campo, approfondimenti bibliografici, ricerche d’archivio e nuove
campagne di documentazione fotografica, sette testimonianze
artistiche, databili fra VI e XIII secolo, appartenenti a Lentini,
centro della Sicilia orientale a metà strada fra Catania e Siracusa,
le cui origini risalgono all’epoca dell’antica Grecia. Si tratta di una
basilica extra muros, con resti di opus sectile, recinzione liturgica e
mosaico absidale, emersa da uno scavo archeologico di un secolo
fa e poi rinterrata; di un cofanetto d’avorio a motivi aniconici,
con decorazione bicroma e aggiunte in oro, realizzato per
custodire una reliquia della Passione; di una stauroteca a cassetta
e coperchio scorrevole, contenente un bassorilievo in steatite con
l’effige degli imperatori Elena e Costantino; di una piccola
campana in bronzo con inciso – caso assai raro – il versetto di un
salmo in caratteri greci; delle tracce di un monumentale Giudizio
Universale dipinto all’interno di un santuario rupestre;
dell’immagine di una Deesis conservata in un arcosolio dell’Ex
Cattedrale associato alla tomba dei martiri Alfio, Filadelfo e
Cirino; di un’icona-palladio alta quasi due metri raffigurante
un’Odigitria con tanto di dedica dell’evangelista Luca ai lentinesi.
Opere riconducibili, direttamente o indirettamente, alla cultura
artistica bizantina, preziose per questa ragione, ma anche e
soprattutto perché superstiti rappresentanti di un patrimonio
originariamente ingente, ricco e stratificato, andato quasi
interamente perduto a causa di terremoti, abbandoni, dispersioni
Mosaici d’oro nelle chiese di Venezia (IX–XIV secolo). Luci sull’ingente patrimonio perduto
No full textAbstract – Venice’s Gold Mosaics (Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries). Discovering the Lost Heritage – Attempting to assess the spread of golden mosaic decorations in Venice during the middle ages, scholars have thus far focused mainly on the existing, most famous examples: San Marco, Torcello, and Murano. A careful reading of early descriptions
and chronicles from the fourteenth into the eighteenth centuries, however, uncovers many more examples. The texts of erudite authors such as Marcantonio Sabellico (1436–1506), Marino Sanudo (1466–1536), and Francesco Sansovino (1521–1586) often mention golden vaults (testudines or cubae aureae) in medieval Venetian churches that were
destroyed or modified after the Middle Ages. Examination of literary sources reviewed in this article presents fifteen such cases detected, all dating from the ninth century to the fourteenth. Most have been verified and contextualized from historical evidence
Zenith lighting in Christian places of worship between reality and fiction (West-East, 4th-13th centuries)
Full text linkThis article analyses the light irradiation from the top in the places of worship of medieval Christianity, whether as phenomenon of natural origin, produced by an oculus, or figuratively, through the creation of two-dimensional medallions at the summit of the vault. Few but significant examples refer to the first aspect of the question, such as the Rotunda of the Anastasis and Santa Maria ad Martyres (Pantheon). The image of the zenithal light, instead, often occurs inside the coverings of the domes, especially in the mosaic decorations (Santa Costanza, Baptistery of the Orthodox, Rotunda of Saint George, etc.). In these and other contexts, the effect of a circular window open at the top of the vault is suggested by
the iconographic theme, which evokes the vertical motion of transcendence, ascendant (Resurrection and Assumption) or descendant (Pentecost, Baptism, Second Coming), and through the fake frames or particular colour combinations (gold/silver, gold/blue, degrading shades from blue to white, rainbow bands). Both in the physical manifestation and in the iconographic representation, the light from above plays a central role in some medieval rituals related to the celebration of Baptism, Pentecost and Resurrection
Mosaici parietali perduti nella Gallia cristiana: un quadro d’insieme.
Full text linkOggetto del presente contributo sono le testimonianze di mosaici parietali perduti della Gallia
cristiana, fra IV e VII secolo, desumibili da fonti scritte (di età tardoantica, medievale e moderna) e frammenti
materici (per lo più tessere rinvenute in occasione di scavi archeologici). Lo studio ha portato a documentare
una trentina di casi, concentrati in 18 centri della Francia, disseminati sull’intero territorio. Finora
il fenomeno in questione non era mai stato analizzato nel suo insieme e questa prima indagine restituisce
un quadro sorprendentemente ricco e variegato, soprattutto se si riflette sul fatto che la Francia (a differenza
dell’Italia), non conserva rivestimenti musivi di dimensioni monumentali risalenti all’età tardoantica. I dati
acquisiti, in linea generale, quasi mai ci dicono qualcosa sui contenuti iconografici dei contesti ma forniscono
comunque preziose informazioni sui materiali (data la frequenza di rinvenimenti di tessere vitree multicolori,
anche con foglia d’oro), sulla produzione (considerata l’attestazione, in almeno due casi, di fornaci in
situ per il vetro) e sui committenti (soprattutto vescovi, ma anche monarchi e personaggi eminenti della
società laica).This article examines the evidence of lost wall mosaics in Christian Gaul between the 4th and 7th
centuries, as inferred from written sources (dating from Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern
period) and material fragments (primarily tesserae discovered during archaeological excavations). The
study documents around 30 cases concentrated in 18 locations across France, scattered throughout the entire
territory. This phenomenon had never been analysed comprehensively so far, and this initial investigation
reveals a surprisingly rich and varied picture, particularly given that France, unlike Italy, does not preserve
monumental mosaic coverings from Late Antiquity.The data collected offer almost never information on the
iconographic content of these contexts but provide valuable insights into materials (notably the frequent
discovery of multicoloured glass tesserae, including gold-leaf ones), production processes (evidenced by the
presence of in situ glass furnaces in two cases at least), and patrons (mainly bishops, but also monarchs and
prominent figures of secular society)
Scuola, famiglia, comunità : confronto tra culture sinergie locali verso una scuola partecipata e comunitaria
Full text linkIn this modern global society, where egocentric attitudes lead to the individual feeling fragmented, alone, and ever more competitive, and where educational and social institutions
are ever more strained (the well-known “crisis in education, the family, and other institutions”), it becomes of paramount importance, firstly, to comprehend such dynamics,
and, secondly, to cooperate in order to create and build a socio-political and pedagogic path towards global change, with the aim of overcoming the social isolation and devaluation of the
individual, reconstructing a network of relationships and community interactions and ever more active means of participation by all those involved.
The present research starts from the above point of view. On the one hand, information is presented about the cultural and organizational dimensions of current day schooling and the
relationship between the school and the local community, and an alternative model of “socioeducational culture” is proposed, based around individuals in a local socio-cultural context.
More specifically, using a mainly ethnographic ideology, a study is undertaken of four primary schools in three different types of neighbourhood (2 in the province of Treviso, 1 in
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and 1 in Bogota, Colombia) and their relative local contexts (mainly represented by family and external socio-educational organizations).
On the other hand, using observations which emerge from analysis of the data, and by comparing the existing scientific literature, the research aims to define a proposed model for
an all-inclusive, community-based, state school, both integral to, and integrated in, the local community, within an integrated local education system which in turn is both participatory
and community-based (the pedagogic purpose).
The main findings emerging from the field research were analysed at two levels of interpretation, the level of interpersonal relationships, and the degree of participation in
democratic management. Results showed: how meetings (both formal and informal) were structured; a representation of their educational role; a picture of both interpersonal and interinstitutional relationships at the local internal level; and a view of local participation, of both adults and children, and its role.
Following initial analysis and reconstruction of the local cultural framework specific to each observed context, the second part of the research comprised an intercultural comparison of the
main findings – both frequently recurring and unusual findings. For example, in all four contexts, despite different characteristics, it emerged that the “community relations” dimension is closely linked to that of “participatory management”, and that in the socioeducational organization equal paths are pursued in the exploitation of relationships, the
humanization of relationships and of conflict management on the one hand, and on the other, of raising awareness, the promotion of a social option (Don Milani’s “I care”) and a framework of appropriate space for the democratic participation of the different individuals involved – adults and children –space where, by comparison and negotiation of “culture” (meaning, expectations, values), a critical understanding of reality can be triggered, and shared planning of improved ways towards greater humanisation implemented.
The present cross-sectional analysis leads to a vision of the school and local community understood as places to be lived in a new way, being actively participated in, and experienced
as a community of inter-related individuals involved in a mutual process of educational and social improvement.
An interpretative analysis and critical reflection of the pedagogic option adopted, within a framework of school autonomy and a widespread demand for more local self-determination, can be related to authors such as Dewey, Mounier, Freinet, Freire and Milani. These, among others, shared a transformational, liberating and democratic vision they thought important to
recover, both in the school and in the local and wider community, to create foundations for the genuine development of the whole human being, integral to, and integrated in, the local community.
The vision is one of a school, able to discover its own social and political role, and critically confront, even welcome, external requests for a higher quality teaching framework, within a
comprehensive and integrated programme of education, whilst respecting the areas of competence of individuals.
The vision is one of a localised social and educational system, able to renegotiate its own cultural foundations, adopting a shared perspective on which to build the local “educational
community”, leading to the prospect of an “educational city” (Barcellona, 1990)
Vecchie e nuove ipotesi sul primitivo mosaico della cupola della Cappella Palatina d’Aquisgrana
No full textIl contributo si interroga sull'assetto del primitivo mosaico della cupola della Cappella Palatina di Aquisgrana (inizi del IX secolo), contenente i ventiquattro Seniores dell'Apocalisse in adorazione di una Majestas Domini. Distrutta nel 1719, l'opera venne rifatta "à l'identique" negli anni 1879-1881, sulla base di esigui resti del disegno preparatorio, della lettura di Peter von Beeck (1620) e di quella di Giovanni Ciampini (1690), includente una preziosa incisione. L'incompletezza e la non totale convergenza di tali informazioni sono all'origine di alcune inesattezze riscontrabili nell'intervento di ripristino. Ulteriori imprecisioni della copia ottocentesca emergono da appunti e disegni di Palamède Fabri (1607-1608), pubblicati da Jean Hubert nel 1936, documenti che consentono, per altro, di riesaminare la controversa questione del perduto soggetto zenitale
Alle origini dell’emblema di Venezia: il leone 'in moeca' di Sant’Aponal.
No full textL'articolo è incentrato su uno dei più antichi esempi di emblema della città di Venezia: un piccolo bassorilievo conservato al Museo Correr (inv. cl. XXV, n° 129) raffigurante un leone con libro, simbolo dell'evangelista Marco, fino agli anni '60 del secolo scorso affisso sopra la porta del campanile della chiesa di Sant'Aponal (Sant'Apollinare) in sestiere San Polo. L'effigie zoomorfa, ritratta soltanto nella sua parte anteriore, ad ali spiegate, risponde alla tipologia del leone "in moeca" (espressione dialettale riferentesi all’aspetto che assume una specie di granchio locale ("cancer moenas") quando, al momento della muta, perde il suo carapace e diventa molle. Il presente contributo offre una nuova lettura iconografico-formale dell'opera, una rivalutazione della sua qualità esecutiva, un'ipotesi sull'origine del contesto di produzione (tra Bisanzio, l'Islam e l'Occidente) e, infine, una proposta di retrodatazione al XII-XIII secolo
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