The sculpture of reform in north Italy, ca. 1095-1130
Subtitle: history and patronage of Romanesque façades
By: Dorothy F. Glass
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781409400028
Other titles: History and patronage of Romanesque façades
Description: "Declining to revisit questions of artistic personalities, artistic style and connoisseurship, Dorothy F. Glass delves instead into the historical and historiographical context for a group of significant monuments erected in Italy between the last decade of the eleventh century and the first third of the twelfth century. In her reading, local culture takes precedence over names, context over connoisseurship; she argues that it was the cultural, intellectual and religious life of the abbeys of San Benedetto Po and Nonantola that provided the framework for the Reformist ethos of much of the sculpture adorning the cathedral of Modena. Glass argues that the monuments are deeply rooted in the concerns of the reform of the church, more commonly known as the Gregorian Reform, that these reform ideas and ideals were first fomented in monastic communities and then adopted by the new cathedrals built in cities that, freed of submission to imperial German rule, had recently rejoined the papal fold."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Papal politics, papal culture; title: The geography of power, the power of geography : Mantua and San Benedetto Po; title: The Benedictine abbey of Nonantola : reframing history, debating theology; title: The cathedral at Modena : history and historiography; title: The reform program of the cathedral of Modena; title: Beyond the center : the cathedrals of Cremona and Piacenza.