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On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 8:02 am, chris crockett wrote:
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Chapel of Sts. Eldrad and Nicholas (10th-11th cent.; internal
> frescoes,> 2d half of 11th cent.):
> > http://www.abbazianovalesa.org/s.Eldrado.htm
> > http://www.vdveer.myadsl.nl/assets/images/novalesa1.jpg
> >
> > apse frescoes:
> > http://www.abbazianovalesa.org/abside_eldrado.htm
>
>
> from what little i can see, the style looks very close to that of
> St. Angelo
> in Formis (which means Montecassino), from about the same time.
>
> not surprisingly.
I am a little surprised. The style _is_ very close to that in evidence
at Sant'Angelo in Formis, e.g.
http://www.storiadellarte.com/periodi/romanico/archromanica/formis2.htm
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/5xcph
http://www.storiadellarte.com/periodi/romanico/archromanica/formis.htm
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/69au4
But Sant'Angelo in Formis is located outside of Capua in northern
Campania, in Italian terms a rather long chalk away from Novalesa in the
subalpine valleys of western Piedmont (or even from Novalesa's
eleventh-century mother house at Breme in the Lomellina near Pavia).
Here's a view -- I wish I had a better -- of the late eleventh-century
apse frescoes of the patriarcal basilica at Aquileia, also in northern
Italy:
http://www.sitiunesco.it/pix/aquileia/abside_affresco3_b.jpg
That to me is in a rather different style. Here's a detail:
http://www.sitiunesco.it/pix/aquileia/abside_affresco2_b.jpg
All three sites, by the way, are in regions of Italy that in the later
eleventh century were politically quite distinct one from another.
Best,
John Dillon
PS: Perhaps someone familiar with surviving examples of later
eleventh-century church frescoes in France (or at least someone with a
copy of Marcia Kupfer's book on the romanesque wall-paintings of central
France) could say something about the style(s) encountered there.
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