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Arte cristiana ad Aquileia nella tarda antichità. Diario di viaggio
Early Christian Art in Aquileia during Late Antiquity. A travel diary
Bisconti, Fabrizio
2016
Abstract
Since many years I have “archaeologically” attended the ancient city of Aquileia, to understand its evolution through the artistic manifestations. This path has interested first of all the symbolic expressions, and especially the “christianized” myth of the phoenix, and then the cosmic imagery, as it results from the mosaic floor decorations of the so-called “oratori”, namely the triclinia of late antique domus, and from the two Halls of the Theodorian Basilica. My curiositas accompanied me also towards the funerary dimension, and principally the figured incision on marble slabs, place as iconographic commentary to the christian inscriptions.
Da molti anni frequento “archeologicamente” la città antica di Aquileia, per conoscerne l’evoluzione, attraverso le manifestazioni figurative. Il percorso ha interessato prima le espressioni simboliche e, in particolare, il mito “cristianizzato” della fenice e poi la materia cosmica, così come emerge dalle decorazioni pavimentali musive dei cd. oratori, ovvero dei triclini delle domus tardoantiche, e delle due aule del complesso teodoriano. Ma la mia curiositas mi ha accompagnato anche verso il mondo funerario, ossia verso le incisioni figurate, poste a commento iconografico delle lapidi cristiane.
Since many years I have “archaeologically” attended the ancient city of Aquileia, to understand its evolution through the artistic manifestations. This path has interested first of all the symbolic expressions, and especially the “christianized” myth of the phoenix, and then the cosmic imagery, as it results from the mosaic floor decorations of the so-called “oratori”, namely the triclinia of late antique domus, and from the two Halls of the Theodorian Basilica. My curiositas accompanied me also towards the funerary dimension, and principally the figured incision on marble slabs, place as iconographic commentary to the christian inscriptions.
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Fabrizio Bisconti, ''Arte cristiana ad Aquileia nella tarda antichità. Diario di viaggio'', in: ''Aquileia Nostra'', 87 (2016), pp. 53-64
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