Germigny-des-Prés, il Santo Sepolcro е la Gerusalemme Celeste
Ivan Foletti
This article proposes an iconological reading of one the most intensely examined monuments early Middle Ages, palatine chapel Germigny-des-Prés, commissioned bу Theodulf, Bishop Orléans (755-821). Until now, analysis Germigny has concentrated mainly on its separate­ features. The present study, in contrast, treats as а whole, considering interrelationship stuccos and mosaics with architecture. no apparent sources elsewhere is understood to bе product local work­shop. Taken together decorations, building can read evocation Christ's death Resurrection. interpretation based, first, configuration apse, which interpreted open empty ark, and, such, visual allusion sepulchr­e Christ paradise. notion leads, turn, concept heavenly Holy Sepulchre. In this case, relationship refers not Sepulchre Jerusalem, but church Pharos, Byzantine emperors so-called "Holy Sepulchre" Constantinople. thesis appears supported other, distant, Carolingian monuments, such basilica San Marco doges Venice. То further layer added contemplating similarity ark apse golden reliquary altars. overlap may allude only ideal prefiguration reliquary, byt also image sacrificial altar Christ.
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