Parma
9432 Il monastero di San Paolo
Text by Marzio Dall'Acqua, Lucia Fornari Schiacchi, Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli, Cecil Gould, Ireneo Affò, Arnaldo Barilli, Oskar Hagen, Corrado Ricci, Roberto Longhi, Erwin Panofsky, Ernst H. Gombrich, Maurizio Calvesi. Curated by Marzio Dall'Acqua Lucia Fornari Schianchi. Introduction by Luciano Silingardi
1990 / 208 PAGES.
Language: Italian
This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the monastic complex of San Paolo, its events and history, accompanied by an anthology of critical essays on the Camera del Correggio and photographs by Riccardo Amendolagine and Francesco Barracchia.
The monastery From 1986 to 1992, extensive restoration work was carried out on the interior and exterior of the Baptistery of Parma. This volume brings together critical contributions that aim to offer a complete picture of the monument: at the opening Georges Duby offers a historical-artistic dissertation on the Fons Vitae, as the baptistery is sometimes called, to which are related the line drawings and engravings by Bertoluzzi and Sottili for the series of plates dedicated to the Baptistery of Parma by Studio Toschi. This is followed by a historical analysis by Giovanni Romano on the figure of Benedetto Antelami, the sculptor and also probable architect of the Baptistery. Chiara Frugoni offers readers a description and iconographic exegesis regarding the great sculptural cycle of the Antelami complex, followed by images of the sculptures under analysis. The volume ends with a section on the restoration work, composed of essays that examine the plastic decoration of the baptistery and the stone and brick surfaces of the interior and exterior of the Baptistery of Parma.complex of San Paolo in Parma houses extraordinary artefacts: the medieval sacellum, the Chambers painted by the great artist Correggio and Alessandro Araldi, the fragmentary sculptures of the d’Agrate family and the Cell of Santa Caterina. Through the essays in this volume, and the wealth of images and documentary and bibliographical citations, Franco Maria Ricci editore once again offers readers the chance to understand the important artistic value of an important piece that makes up the picture of Italian art history.