Porta coeli: the Annunciation as Threshold of Salvation
Francesca Dell’Acqua
In one of his earliest monographs, Hans Belting recognized the painted crypt Abbot Epyphanius (824-842) in monastery San Vincenzo al Volturno as most important cycle early medieval South Italy. developed an interpretation murals, their style, and content, by tracing connections over a wide geographical perspective. Though challenged years eventually generally rejected, reading remains thought provoking. A response to questions involved, this paper focuses on specific image crypt, Annunciation visible sides fenestella confessionis. This faded mural is Annunciations extant which protagonists are flanking opening, became conventional later Middle Ages. The appearance kind considered here reconstructing east-west circulation theological concepts during Iconoclastic controversy; identifying textual imagery derived from these con...
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