Ostentation von Pracht oder Selbstbescheidung? Antike Spolien in den hochmittelalterlichen Kirchen Roms – Konjunkturen und Intentionen,
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Authors
Type
Book chapter
Year
2017
Language
German
Abstract
This article explores the reuse of ancient workpieces, especially colonnade elements (base, shaft, capital, architrave), that were valued in Rome in the Central Middle Ages due to their quality craftsmanship or costly, colorful materials. Alongside the lapidary aspect of building material reuse, the focus is on ostentatious, ‘antiquarian’ use of spolia, in which attention was drawn to ancient ‘exhibition pieces’. The last part of the article discusses the reuse of whole sections of buildings as spatial spolia in the conflict between extravagance and economy.
Book
Perspektiven der Spolienforschung 2: Zentren und Konjunkturen der Spoliierung, a cura di Stefan Altenkamp, Carmen Marcks-Jacobs, Peter Seiler (Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 40)
Publisher
Edition Topoi, Berlin
Start page number
235
End page number
281
DOI
Keywords
Spolia, franciscan poverty, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Santa Maria in Aracoeli
