Objects, relics, and migrants : The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the cult of its saints (386-972)

FOLETTI, Ivan. Objects, relics, and migrants : The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the cult of its saints (386-972). Řím: Viella, 2020, 250 pp. In Between, 2. ISBN 978-88-6728-950-9.

Basic information

• Original name: Objects, relics, and migrants : The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the cult of its saints (386-972)
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Řím, 250 pp. In Between, 2, 2020.
• Publisher: Viella

Other information

• Original language: English
• 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"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/20:00115387
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-88-6728-950-9
• Keywords in English: Objects; Relics; Migrants; Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio; Milan; Early Middle Ages; Late Antiquity; Ambrose of Milan; Gervasius; Protasius
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, originally built under Ambrose (374-397), and radically restructured at the end of the eleventh century, is an extraordinary lieu de mémoire, containing the presence of medieval objects and monuments. Through the study of some of the renowned works conserved in the basilica, among which the chapel of San Vittore in Ciel d’Oro, the golden altar, and the St Ambrose ciborium, this book deals with the interaction between the building’s topology and its objects, the relics around which the basilica was built, and the notion of ‘migrants’. The aim, in other words, is to analyze, over the longue durée, how some objects became a reflection of the relics, and how the material sanctity stemming from them was used as an instrument of exclusion and inclusion in a problematic ethnic context. Dedicated photographic documentation, carried out specifically for this work, offers rich and sumptuous iconographic material underpinning the volume.