Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450

Author:   Claudia Bolgia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367595012


Pages:   458
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
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Author:   Claudia Bolgia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780367595012


ISBN 10:   036759501
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction From Isis to Mary: The Arx and its surroundings from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 1 Before the Franciscans: The previous churches on the site - Cunctarum prima quae fuit orbe sita: Literary, documentary, and epigraphic evidence from the earliest times to the thirteenth century - From S. Maria in Capitolio to S. Maria in Aracoeli: the title - Archaeological evidence from the earliest times to the thirteenth century - The previous churches and their relationship with the Franciscan building - Early medieval church furniture - The obelisk - The cloisters - Conclusion 2 The Franciscan ‘appropriation’ of the Arx - Franciscan foundations in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - The Franciscans in Rome and their new headquarters - The ara coeli - The monument and its ‘meaning’ - The ara coeli ‘confessio’: Art for the Benedictines or the Franciscans? - New and old cults before the construction of the new church 3 The New Franciscan Church: Between tradition and innovation - An architectural analysis of the medieval building - Nave and aisles - Transept - Chapel L9 - Original main chapel - Façade - The decoration of the apse and the Franciscan promotion of the legend of Augustus from Rome to Finland - Marble workshop: Window tracery - Transmission and reception of formal ideas: Artistic exchanges between Rome and England in the thirteenth century - The magister principalis and the builders - The deployment of Spolia and Franciscan ideas - New and old cults in the new Franciscan church: paths for faithful and pilgrims 4 The ‘extended’ space of the Franciscan church: S. Maria in Aracoeli as a lived social and political place - The ‘extended’ space of the church exterior - The original side-entrance and the guardianship of the minors - Preaching, politics, and religious tribunals - The ‘extended’ space of the church interior - Inner appearance and family chapels - Burying in the Franciscan church - Between ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the Rome of the popular regime: Francesco Felici’s icon tabernacle and family chapel (1372) - Beyond Rome: the Legend of Augustus and the Aracoeli icon in Fourteenth- and early Fifteenth-century Siena Conclusions Appendix: chart of intercolumniations

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This is an excellent volume, which teems with artisitic insights and valuable information about Santa Maria in Aracoeli and the order's appropriation of this historical site in the centre of Rome. The author is to be warmly congratulated, as are the publishersfor producing such a de luxe book. The volume will be of immense interest to historians of art and students of Franciscan history. - Michael Robson, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge


""" This is an excellent volume, which teems with artisitic insights and valuable information about Santa Maria in Aracoeli and the order's appropriation of this historical site in the centre of Rome. The author is to be warmly congratulated, as are the publishersfor producing such a de luxe book. The volume will be of immense interest to historians of art and students of Franciscan history."" - Michael Robson, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge"


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Claudia Bolgia is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on medieval Rome and Franciscan Art and Architecture in a range of international peer-reviewed journals. Co-editor, with Rosamond McKitterick and John Osborne, of Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Translation and the Exchange of Ideas, c. 500-1400 (2011), her research has attracted major Fellowships, including Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2009–10), The British School at Rome (2012–14), CASVA – The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2016–17), The Newberry Library (2016–17), and The Leverhulme Trust (2017–18).

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