Oggetti, reliquie, migranti : La basilica ambrosiana e il culto dei suoi santi (386-972)

FOLETTI, Ivan. Oggetti, reliquie, migranti : La basilica ambrosiana e il culto dei suoi santi (386-972) (Objects, Relics, Migrants : The Basilica Ambrosiana and the Cult of its Saints (386-972)). Řím: Viella, 2018, 254 pp. Storia dell'arte.temi, 3. ISBN 978-88-6728-846-5.

Basic information

• Original name: Oggetti, reliquie, migranti : La basilica ambrosiana e il culto dei suoi santi (386-972)
• Name (in English): Objects, Relics, Migrants : The Basilica Ambrosiana and the Cult of its Saints (386-972)
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Řím, 254 pp. Storia dell'arte.temi, 3, 2018.
• Publisher: Viella

Other information

• Original language: Italian
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/18:00102411
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-88-6728-846-5
• Keywords in English: Objects; Relics; Migrants; The Basilica Ambrosiana; Milan; Golden Altar; San Vittore in Ciel d'Oro
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

La basilica ambrosiana di Milano, edificata per la prima volta negli anni di Ambrogio (374-397) e ricostruita radicalmente alla fine dell’XI secolo, e' uno straordinario luogo di memoria e di presenza di oggetti e monumenti medievali. Attraverso lo studio di alcune celebri opere in essa conservate, tra cui il sacello di San Vittore in Ciel d’Oro, l’altare d’oro e il ciborio di Sant’Ambrogio, il libro si propone di indagare l’interazione tra la topologia dell’edificio e i suoi oggetti, le reliquie attorno alle quali l’Ambrosiana e' costruita, e la nozione di “migranti”. In altre parole si vuole analizzare come, sulla lunga durata, alcuni oggetti diventino riflesso delle reliquie, e la santita' materiale che da essi deriva venga usata come strumento di esclusione e intrusione in un contesto etnico problematico.

Abstract (in English)

Erected during the episcopate of Ambrose (374-397) and reconstructed at the end of the eleventh century, the Basilica Ambrosiana in Milan is am incredible place of memory and of presence of Medieval objects and monuments, either extant or whose presence is attested by their cultural imprint. Through the analysis of some of the masterpieces preserved in the complex — among which the chapel of San Vittore in Ciel d’Oro, the golden altar, and the canopy of St Ambrose — the present study explores the interaction between, on the one hand, the building’s topology and its objects, the relics around which the complex is built, and the concept of “migrants”, on the other. The focus lies on the manner in which certain objects came to be seen as reflections of the relics, and the material sanctity deriving from them made into an instrument of exclusion and inclusion in a complex ethnic context.