Il volto di Ambrogio
Simone Piazza
The object of the present contribution is tradition portraiture Ambrose during Middle Ages and beyond, until time cardinal Carlo Borromeo, through examination relevant figurative evidence. Such a research has highlighted persistence early Christian prototype middle-aged man with brown beard mustache (mosaic chapel San Vittore in Ciel d’Oro Milan, V cent.), both basilica St. Milan (stucco ciborium, X cent.; polychrome medallion, XII-XIII cent.) elsewhere (Egino codex, VIII apse church Occiano, near Salerno, IX cent.). In Carolingian age, beside persistent model Late Antiquity, two other physiognomic types appear: young beardless (golden altar Vuolvinius, Psalter Archbishop Arnulf II, X-XI Gospels Aribert treasure Cathedral, XI an old one grey hair (apse mosaic Ambrose, This variant widespread Byzantine area (Menology Basil Cappella Palatina Palermo cathedral Monreale, XII it becomes prevalent West since fifteenth century.
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