Una questione romana? La (ri)nascita della pittura narrativa martiriale nell’alto Medioevo: altri spunti da Santa Prassede

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Title
Una questione romana? La (ri)nascita della pittura narrativa martiriale nell’alto Medioevo: altri spunti da Santa Prassede
Journal
Convivium, Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Supplementum Rome on the Borders Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition
Author(s)
Croci Chiara
ISBN
978-80-210-9710-0
ISSN
2336-3452
ISSN-L
2336-3452
Publication state
Published
Issued date
30/12/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
7
Pages
87-103
Language
italian
Abstract
Hagiographical narratives, especially depictions of
the acta martyrum, stand out in the pre-Carolingian Rome and reach
an apex in the transept of Santa Prassede. Whether this reflects the renewal of a late-antique tradition, the survival of a tradition erased
by conservation, or something new in eighth- and ninth-century Rome remains unclear. To understand the transept program in the cultural and political context of Pope Paschal i’s papacy, this paper considers the main developments of the hagiographical paintings in the early Middle Ages, the role of Saint Peter’s basilica as a model, and the specifics of the transept’s space, coming back to the repetitiveness of the cycles of Santa Prassede and to the redundant scene of the martyr trial.
Keywords
pictorial narrative, hagiographical paintings, Santa Prassede transept, St Peter’s transept, cult of relics, iconographical strategies, martyr’s trial, iconoclasm
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