Divine Anamorphosis. The Phenomenality of Gold and Chant in a Fourteenth-Century Antiphonary from Santa Maria sopra Porta

Convivium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-217
Author(s):  
Bissera V. Pentcheva
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Santa Maria

scholarly journals Per Ravenna trecentesca: nuove proposte per l’assetto architettonico di Santa Maria in Porto Fuori

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Fabio Massaccesi
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Church

Abstract This contribution intends to draw attention to one of the most significant monuments of medieval Ravenna: the church of Santa Maria in Porto Fuori, which was destroyed during the Second World War. Until now, scholars have focused on the pictorial cycle known through photographs and attributed to the painter Pietro da Rimini. However, the architecture of the building has not been the subject of systematic studies. For the first time, this essay reconstructs the fourteenth-century architectural structure of the church, the apse of which was rebuilt by 1314. The data that led to the virtual restitution of the choir and the related rood screen are the basis for new reflections on the accesses to the apse area, on the pilgrimage flows, and on the view of the frescoes.

German Jews and Figurative Art

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Shatzmiller
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
Great Appreciation ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Public Architecture

This chapter briefly reviews the art history from 1230–1450 CE in order to better understand the cultural profile of the rabbi, and to evaluate the contribution of the wall paintings in his house as indications of the artistic horizons of German Jews of the fourteenth century. It also shows how Jews had to abandon the art that they cherished for generations, yet they found ways to keep alive their fascination with the beautiful and to nurse their aesthetic needs. The interior synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca of Toledo and that of the recently reconstructed Sinagoga Mayor of Segovia manifest a profound attachment to Islamic public architecture. Jews showed great appreciation for the decorative value of their Hebrew alphabet. They also learned to paint inanimate or geometric images in miniature letters on the covers of their Bibles.

Art and Sermons: Dominicans and the Jews in Florence’s Santa Maria Novella

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

This paper analyzes perceptions of the Jews by the Dominican friars in latemedieval Florence and focuses on the encounter between the Christian and Jewish worlds as manifested in Santa Maria Novella church in the oral and visual traditions. The intention is to examine the representations of Jews in a particular context, that of an Italian urban society in the late fourteenth century, especially in the context of mendicant activity, by studying both preaching and art in that context.The article shows the similarities and differences between the visual and the verbal in relation to the different media discussed, and analyzes the complexity of the Dominican perception of the Jews.

scholarly journals Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Blaise Dufal
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
Classic Literature ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Bear Witness

The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his contribution to the transfer of knowledge about Antiquity and the rebirth of antiquarianism in the Italian peninsula. This essay argues that Trevet’s Scholastic commentaries, presented as an expositio, met the need that Italian intellectuals had of a fuller understanding of classic literature, pagan mythology and Roman history.

The Beginnings of Santa María de Guadalupe and the Direction of Fourteenth-Century Castile

1985 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Linehan
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Virgin Of Guadalupe ◽  
Gregory The Great ◽  
Santa Maria

Uncertainty regarding the circumstances in which devotion to the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe was established is almost as old as the devotion itself. The earliest surviving version of the legend, which recounts the adventures of the celebrated statue from the time of Gregory the Great to its discovery in the Montes de Toledo by the pastor Gil Cordero - an account dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century - places its reappearance in the reign of the son of Fernando iii of Castile, ‘su fijo Don Alfonso el qual gano las Algesiras e murio sobre Gibraltar’, thus conflating Alfonso x, Fernando iii's son, who died in 1284, with Alfonso x's great-grandson Alfonso xi (1312–50). Attempts to unscramble or to disguise this confusion have a long history too, the earliest being that of the corrector of Ms AHN 48B, who expunged words and phrases and supplied marginal additions to bridge the gap between the reigns of the two Alfonsos.

A Breton Adventurer in Naples

1951 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 154-159
Author(s):  
S. F. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
British School ◽  
South Wall ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
The Church

The purpose of this note is to discuss a late fourteenth-century tomb slab in the church of Santa Maria della Incoronata in Naples. In the course of collecting material for a study of the medieval tombs of Naples, which the Director of the British School at Rome and the present writer are preparing, this tomb, which is in many ways eccentric to the rest of the series, seemed of sufficient interest to merit treatment on its own.The slab (pl. XXI, 1), of Greek marble, now stands on end, together with six others, against the south wall of the west aisle. When Cesare d'Engenio saw it in the early seventeenth century it was still in situ in the floor of the same aisle. The figure is carved in low relief beneath a delicately traceried canopy with pinnacles and spiral columns, the whole set within a rectangular inscribed frame.

scholarly journals Poesia e filosofia a Firenze tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-241
Author(s):  
Sonia Gentili
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Library Collection ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation casts new light on the links between philosophy and po- etry which enliven Dante’s literary production. In particular, the author considers Aristotelian works as potential vehicles of literary knowledge about, for instance, Homeric characters.

scholarly journals Influences et interactions entre Santa Maria Novella et la commune de Florence.

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Delphine Carron
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
The City ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

At the turn of the fourteenth century (1295-1301), the Florentine Dominican Remigio de’ Girolami produced a collection of essential texts connected to events in Florentine politics that present the testimony of a well-informed intellectual directly involved in the Communal crises. This article proposes to analyze, as a case study, the influence of Remigio’s five sermons on Florentine communal life. His preaching in reaction to the crises shaking Florence happened in dialogue with the institutions and citizens of the Commune. It bears witness to the interactions between Santa Maria Novella and the city of Florence and contributes to the development of the political philosophy of its time.

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