medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The mosaic is dated as it is because that's the date of the facade
bearing it. Lucca is extraordinarily well documented and it would not
surprise me to learn that the year(s) of this construction is(are) known
exactly. Best, John Dillon
On Monday, March 21, 2005, at 7:46 am, chris crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> > On Sunday, March 20, 2005, at 5:24 pm, Diana Wright wrote:
> > > You got a date on that mosaic?
>
>
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Thirteenth century, it says here:
> > http://www.portale-toscana.com/lucca_citta.php
> > and here (in Italian), in a description of the church I meant to
> cite in the
> previous post:
>
>
http://www.itclucca.lu.it/interessanti/luccacittadarte/2id/S.FREDIA/SFREDIA.html
> > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/4d7lq
>
>
>
> those angels (especially) look very "Dynamic Style" to me
>
> http://web.genie.it/utenti/e/enigmagalgano/Immagini/jpeg/mosaico.jpg
>
> which would put it in the 1160-70s or so.
>
> but i don't recall its being mentioned among the monuments
> representative of
> this style, so i suppose it is later.
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