The Pulpit of Sant'Ambrogio at Milan
Anat Tcherikover
A new analysis shows that the present arrangement of pulpit is a farrago ca. 1200, combining sculpted pieces which survived from destroyed Romanesque 1100 with some additional preexisting material. Whatever can be gathered character original work should understood in context its surroundings church Sant'Ambrogio, at time overcrowded sacred mementos Ambrosian Milan. The fragments sculptural program accordingly emerge as stylistically historicist, deliberately rehashing past forms. Their iconography, however, echoes concept orders Christian society, centering on contrast between reformed clergy, dedicated to God's work, and worldly laity whose concerns are marriage physical labor. combination historicism innovation reflects tension traditional local establishment movement ecclesiastical reform, supported by papal establishm...
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