FOLETTI, Ivan. A Singing Door: Images, Space and Sound in the Santa Sabina Narthex. In Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination, 5. 11. 2016, Stanford, USA. 2016.
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Original name A Singing Door: Images, Space and Sound in the Santa Sabina Narthex
Authors FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination, 5. 11. 2016, Stanford, USA, 2016.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Requested lectures
Field of Study 60400 6.4 Arts
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/16:00091545
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English Santa Sabina; Wooden doors; Sound; Christian Initiation
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Changed by Changed by: prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History, učo 115455. Changed: 3/3/2019 14:42.
Abstract
In recent years the narthex of the fifth-century basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome was designated as a liminal zone; a space for the preparation of neophytes for baptism. The images carved on the doors, one of the key monuments of the space, and written sources have confirmed this interpretation. Current restorations have however permitted a new and fascinating discovery that the main wooden doors were conceived to let the sound through. The neophytes, standing in front of the closed gates and their carved images, had the opportunity to encounter – with their eyes and ears – the promised mystery.
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MUNI/A/0806/2013, interní kód MUName: Kontinuity a diskontinuity: Umělecká tvorba mezi raně středověkým kultem a obrazovou kulturou moderní doby (Acronym: Kontinuity a diskontinuity v umělecké tvorbě)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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