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

FOLETTI, Ivan

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

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

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

Změněno: 13/4/2021 09:41, doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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.