Di Liello, Salvatore (2016) Paesaggi dell'Antico in età medievale e moderna: l'exemplum flegreo. In: Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Vecchi e nuovi Media per l’Immagine del Paesaggio. Tomo primo: Costruzione, descrizione, identità storica. Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei (1). CIRICE - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Iconografia della Città Europea, Napoli, pp. 45-57. ISBN 978-88-99930-00-4
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Abstract
For a long time, in Europe, the theme of the Antique, before hypo-statizing itself in images of ruins during the Modern Age, referred to an eminently ideological dimension, essentially very far from investigations about cities and landscapes marked by history. Even in the mirror of Middle Age Italy, a country so widely marked by settling civilizations, commercial, productive or religious values were those that most attracted the attention of merchants and pilgrims towards urban territories and centers described or just quoted by chronicles and correspondences where potential antiquarian references pointed out, at most, ancient consular roads and places linked with the commemoration of Christian martyrs and saints. In point of fact, the idea of an Eternal City – although it was a long-lasting political and administrative model until the XVth century at least – is in itself an abstraction, an idea essentially unrelated to the physical texture of its Imperial-age buildings and of its urban landscape. Like Rome, the Phlegraean Fields to the West of Naples were also a landscape of ruins. Nevertheless those ruins, thanks to a thriving thermalism, reflecting Imperial-age balnea, continued attracting the nobility and many pilgrims during the Middle Ages, thus qualifying the territory as an outstanding exemplum Naturae et Artis at a time when most other places later canonized as workshops of the Antique were little more than a distant “elsewhere”.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Paesaggio, Antico, Campi Flegrei, Iconografia, Landscape, Antique, Phlegraean Fields, Iconography |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
Depositing User: | dr Vincenzo De Luise |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2021 05:39 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2021 05:39 |
URI: | http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/3228 |
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