Prayers and Protection : The Tower at Torba Reconsidered

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Prayers and Protection : The Tower at Torba Reconsidered

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article attempts to introduce a reconsideration regarding the murals at the tower at Torba. Firstly, we focus on its relatively scarce historiography, which we explain by referring to the tower’s arduous history and its position within the context of the castrum’s rediscovery. By describing the iconography and layers of painted plaster within two decorated floors, we discover that both chambers were originally painted in a single decorative campaign. Regarding the date of the murals, we expand beyond the generic visual affinity between the illumination of a musician from the codex of Institutiones of Cassiodorus, (Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, 660) and the murals. This interconnection is used to further the murals’ dating around the year 800; suggested also by Carlo Bertelli, Flavio de Rubeis, Rudolf M. Kloos, etc. Finally, we propose that the choice to reuse the military structure in a new sacral context was deeply linked with the belief in the intercessory power of saints and their ability to protect the tower against corporeal as well as spiritual danger. This broadens our understanding of the wall paintings’ raison d’etre and their function.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Prayers and Protection : The Tower at Torba Reconsidered

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article attempts to introduce a reconsideration regarding the murals at the tower at Torba. Firstly, we focus on its relatively scarce historiography, which we explain by referring to the tower’s arduous history and its position within the context of the castrum’s rediscovery. By describing the iconography and layers of painted plaster within two decorated floors, we discover that both chambers were originally painted in a single decorative campaign. Regarding the date of the murals, we expand beyond the generic visual affinity between the illumination of a musician from the codex of Institutiones of Cassiodorus, (Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, 660) and the murals. This interconnection is used to further the murals’ dating around the year 800; suggested also by Carlo Bertelli, Flavio de Rubeis, Rudolf M. Kloos, etc. Finally, we propose that the choice to reuse the military structure in a new sacral context was deeply linked with the belief in the intercessory power of saints and their ability to protect the tower against corporeal as well as spiritual danger. This broadens our understanding of the wall paintings’ raison d’etre and their function.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Arte Lombarda

ISSN

0004-3443

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2018

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

IT - Italská republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

5-19

Kód UT WoS článku

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