Micro-Raman investigations on the fresco ‘Trapasso della Vergine’ in the Church of ‘S. Giovanni Battista’ of Paterno Calabro in southern Italy

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Castriota ◽  
Emanuela Meduri ◽  
Tiziana Barone ◽  
Giuseppe De Santo ◽  
Enzo Cazzanelli
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals GPR and IRT Tests in two Historical Buildings in Gravina in Puglia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loredana Matera ◽  
Raffaele Persico ◽  
Edoardo Geraldi ◽  
Maria Sileo ◽  
Salvatore Piro
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
Stepped Frequency ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
The Church

Abstract. This paper describes a noninvasive investigation conducted in two important churches, namely the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the church Santa Croce, both placed in Gravina in Puglia (close to Bari, southern Italy). The church of Santa Croce, now deconsecrated, lies below the Cathedral. Therefore, indeed the two churches constitute a unique building body. Moreover, below the church of Santa Croce there are several crypts, only partially known. The prospecting was performed both with a pulsed commercial GPR system and with a prototypal reconfigurable stepped frequency system. The aim was twofold, namely to achieve some information about the monument and to test the prototypal system. The GPR measurements have been also integrated with an IRT investigation performed on part of the vaulted ceiling of the church of Santa Croce, in order to confirm or deny a possible interpretation of some GPR results.

scholarly journals A multifrequency and multisensor approach for the study and the restoration of monuments: the case of the Cathedral of Matera

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Masini ◽  
R. Persico ◽  
A. Guida ◽  
A. Pagliuca
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Ultrasonic Tomography ◽  
Inversion Algorithm ◽  
Linear Inversion ◽  
The Church ◽  
Lower Frequencies

Abstract. In this paper we propose an integrated approach to diagnostic prospecting applied to the cathedral of Matera, in Southern Italy. In particular, we have performed both an ultrasonic tomography and a high frequency GPR prospecting on some pillars of the Church to investigate about possible structural yielding and a GPR prospecting at lower frequencies on the floor, where also a linear inversion algorithm has been applied to the data.

Varieties of Monastic Discipline in Southern Italy During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 144-158
Author(s):  
G. A. Loud
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
The Church

The conquest of southern Italy by the Normans during the eleventh century incorporated what had hitherto been a peripheral region more fully within the mainstream of Western Europe. However, notwithstanding this, in a number of respects the development of the Church in Norman Italy followed its own idiosyncratic pattern, rather different from the trends that prevailed in other parts of contemporary Latin Christendom. This distinctive evolution can be clearly observed in south Italian monasticism during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

scholarly journals GPR and IRT tests in two historical buildings in Gravina in Puglia

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loredana Matera ◽  
Raffaele Persico ◽  
Edoardo Geraldi ◽  
Maria Sileo ◽  
Salvatore Piro
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Thermography ◽  
Ground Penetrating Radar ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Geophysical Investigation ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
Stepped Frequency ◽  
Ground Penetrating ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
The Church

Abstract. This paper describes a geophysical investigation conducted into two important churches, namely the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the Church of Santa Croce, both in Gravina in Puglia (close to Bari, southern Italy). The Church of Santa Croce, now deconsecrated, lies below the cathedral. Therefore, the two churches constitute a unique building body. Moreover, below the Church of Santa Croce there are several crypts, which are only partially known. The prospecting was performed both with a pulsed commercial ground penetrating radar (GPR) system and with a prototypal reconfigurable stepped frequency system. The aim was twofold, namely to gather information about the monument and to test the prototypal system. The GPR measurements have also been integrated with an infrared thermography (IRT) investigation performed on part of the vaulted ceiling in the Church of Santa Croce, in order to confirm or deny a possible interpretation of certain GPR results.

scholarly journals Cattolica in Stilo and its frescoes

Zograf ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Zago
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church

This paper analyses one of the most representative monuments of Byzantine painting in Calabria. It is the church in the town of Stilo, known as Cattolica. It is believed to date from the last quarter of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century. After a brief historiographical and architectural analysis of the building, the author considers the chronological and stratigraphical problems of the frescoes preserved inside the church. In this process, he pays particular attention to the Byzantine layers of fresco painting that were done from the end of the tenth to the end of the thirteenth century. An in-depth analysis of the frescoes from the first phase of decoration from the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century has produced valuable results that could lead to collecting fresh data about possible artistic contacts and the routes along which the models traveled between southern Italy and the countries of the Byzantine cultural circle.

Otto III’s Penance: A Case Study of Unity and Diversity in the Eleventh-Century Church

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

In the spring of 999 the Emperor Otto III went on pilgrimage to the shrine of the Archangel Michael at Monte Gargano in southern Italy. His pilgrimage was not widely recorded; it was not referred to in any of the works produced in the Empire in the next half century, and only briefly mentioned in three South Italian works. But Otto’s pilgrimage was described more extensively in the eleventh-century vitae of two saints: the anonymous Greek Vita Nili and Peter Damian’s Vita Beati Romualdi. This article will make a case-study of the way in which the authors of these vitae used Otto’s pilgrimage to help construct the sanctity of their own subject, and of how far this reflects the degree of unity, and of diversity, between the Greek and Latin traditions of the Church in southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century.

scholarly journals Portals of the Church of Saint Nicholas in Bari

Zograf ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovan Neskovic
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Church

The Church of Saint Nicolas in Bari, in southern Italy, is known as a church of great renown and importance, in view of the fact that it was built to receive the remains of Saint Nicholas, which are still kept in the church?s crypt, in the part of the building from where its construction began, at the end of the XI century. This church played a highly significant role in the creation of the specific, Romanic style of architecture in this region, so several important buildings were constructed using the basic typological and stylistic characteristics of the Church of Saint Nicholas. It was built as a triple-naved basilica with a transept and a dome designed at the intersection of the main nave and the transept, and the specific rendition of the altar section, with side towers and a flat facade wall that encloses the inner apse was applied in a similar manner on several churches in Apulia. Its great renown in the Christian world is well-known, reflected both in the strong connection between the churches in Bari and Kotor, and through the donations by the medieval Serbian rulers, among which is the large icon of Saint Nicholas, a gift from Stefan Decanski, which is still preserved in the church?s crypt. The importance of this and the other churches in Apulia was undoubtedly one of the factors that have led to discussion in literature about the question of their possible influence on architectonic creation in related artistic fields, including the monuments of the Raska stylistic group, particularly in connection with the architectural and sculptural plastics on portals because of the similarity of some of the shapes and motives in the stonemasonry...

scholarly journals Ricerca storica e cartografica delle domus federiciane “fantasma” della regione del Principatus et Terra Beneventana

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Furno
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Textual Source ◽  
The Church

Historical and cartographic research about the ghost domus built by Frederick II in Principatus et Terra Beneventana regionDuring his reign Frederick II built a series of representative fortified constructions in southern Italy, and after reinforcing the defence line of the border with the State of the Church, he decided to build many residential estates called domus or palacium in the fundamental medieval textual source of Statutum de reparatione castrorum. This research is focused on the study of the landscape in the ancient region of Principatus et Terra Beneventana during the thirteenth century: it is noticed the presence of five imperial domus cited in the Statutum with the name domus Castellucci Battipallae, castrum et palacium Sarni, domus imperatoris in Ebulo, domus imperatoris Apicii and the Castel Belvedere Marano palace. Every domus was studied through a historical and cartographic analysis, and in case of the structure is not recognised on the territory it was organized a landscape analysis in order to propose a hypothetical position. The data that was gathered into ArcGIS software to define the probable locations of the ghost domus were the detailed routes of ancient roads related to the positions of the casalia (little rural communities that paid taxes to maintenance of the royal structures), the Church properties, the urban site, and the other castra and domus.

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