Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento

Starting from a historiographical analysis that highlights the rising, between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, of a strongly innovative glance at sculptural materials dating from the first centuries of the Middle Ages, the paper focuses on the r...

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Main Author: DESTEFANIS, Eleonora
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description Starting from a historiographical analysis that highlights the rising, between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, of a strongly innovative glance at sculptural materials dating from the first centuries of the Middle Ages, the paper focuses on the revival of these artefacts in the Contemporary Age. They were often discovered and recovered during restorations, sometimes quite invasive, involving Late Antique and Early Medieval religious buildings in an attempt to bring back to life their hypothetical “original moment”. This process led sometimes to complete reconstructions of liturgical enclosures, ambos, canopies and altars. In other cases, these items were enhanced through a cultured reuse, sometimes in private contexts (villas or noble chapels), or they even became part of new liturgical furnishings, in which they were reassembled with a function that was often different from the original one, a practice that still continues throughout the 20th century. These reuses/revisitations of Early Medieval sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries represent interesting and refined clues to understanding an aspect, perhaps minor but not marginal, of the reworking of the Early Medieval past in contemporary times.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1496882025-07-21T15:45:18Z Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento DESTEFANIS, Eleonora Early medieval sculpture historiography museum display reuse liturgy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region Starting from a historiographical analysis that highlights the rising, between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, of a strongly innovative glance at sculptural materials dating from the first centuries of the Middle Ages, the paper focuses on the revival of these artefacts in the Contemporary Age. They were often discovered and recovered during restorations, sometimes quite invasive, involving Late Antique and Early Medieval religious buildings in an attempt to bring back to life their hypothetical “original moment”. This process led sometimes to complete reconstructions of liturgical enclosures, ambos, canopies and altars. In other cases, these items were enhanced through a cultured reuse, sometimes in private contexts (villas or noble chapels), or they even became part of new liturgical furnishings, in which they were reassembled with a function that was often different from the original one, a practice that still continues throughout the 20th century. These reuses/revisitations of Early Medieval sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries represent interesting and refined clues to understanding an aspect, perhaps minor but not marginal, of the reworking of the Early Medieval past in contemporary times. 2025-01-13T14:00:43Z 2025-01-13T14:00:43Z 2024-12-20T12:38:27Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20241220_9791221503760_279 2704-5870 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96484 9791221503760 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/149688 ita Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96484/1/42366.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0376-0.17 10.36253/979-12-215-0376-0.17 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221503760 16 Florence open access
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DESTEFANIS, Eleonora
Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title_full Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title_fullStr Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title_full_unstemmed Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title_short Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
title_sort chapter corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra otto e novecento
topic Early medieval sculpture
historiography
museum display
reuse
liturgy
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
topic_facet Early medieval sculpture
historiography
museum display
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liturgy
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
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