Early medieval chapel : decoration, form and function : a study of chapels in Italy and Istria in the period between 313 and 741 AD

Author

Mackie, Gillian Vallance

Document type

Thèse

Language

English

Collection

Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes.

Source

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 1993.| Ph.D.; University of Victoria; 1991; photocopy; Osborne, J. L. ; 1992 ; xii, 340 p.; ill., maps, plans, bibliogr.

Publisher

[s. n.], [S. l.] (can)

Publication country

Canada

Abstract (en)

The relationship between decoration, architectural form, and function is investigated in depth in those early chapels of Italy and Istria which retain significant amounts of their decorative programs. These include the archbishop's chapel and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, S. Vittore in Ciel d'Oro, Milan, the S. Matrona chapel at S. Prisco near S. Maria di Capua Vetere, Campania, and the chapels at the Lateran Baptistery, Rome. In addition, the chapels are set into a broader context through a survey of the many chapels which survive in less good condition, or are known only from archaeological and literary sources. The decorative program of each chapel is analyzed for iconographic content. Themes reflect not only the basic vocabulary of the earliest Christian art, but more precisely, the hopes and aspirations of the chapel's builders. The vast majority of the surviving chapels were built as memorial or funerary chapels in connection with the cult of the dead, and expressed the soul's need for assistance in the attainment of heaven. The funerary cult was intimately connected with that of the martyrs, whose bodies and relics also rested in the chapels, and whose power in favor of those who were interred beside them was invoked in art in the decorative programs of the chapels.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture and excavations -- Italy
• Dissertations
• Chapels
• Early Middle Ages
• 300-800
• Italy
• Istria
• Canada
• Funerary chapels
• Architectural decoration
• Death
• Cults
• Architecture
• Mausoleo di Galla Placidia||Ravenna (ITA)
• Arcivescovado, Oratorio di S. Andrea||Ravenna (ITA)
• S. Vittore in Ciel d'Oro||Milano (ITA)
• S. Giovanni in Laterano||Roma (ITA)
• Baptisteries
• S. Prisco||San Prisco (ITA)
• Cappella di S. Matrona

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture et fouilles -- Italie
• Thèse
• Chapelle [édifice]
• Haut Moyen Age
• 300-800
• Italie
• Istrie
• Canada
• Chapelle funéraire
• Décoration architecturale
• Mort
• Culte
• Architecture
• Mausoleo di Galla Placidia||Ravenna (ITA)
• Arcivescovado, Oratorio di S. Andrea||Ravenna (ITA)
• S. Vittore in Ciel d'Oro||Milano (ITA)
• S. Giovanni in Laterano||Roma (ITA)
• Baptistère
• S. Prisco||San Prisco (ITA)
• Cappella di S. Matrona

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00208389

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