medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, December 30, 2005, at 4:54 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (31. December) is the feast day of:
> Silvester I (d. 335)
A major monument to S. is the church of what until its suppression in
1769 was his abbey at Nonantola (MO). The latter, one of medieval
Italy's great monasteries, was founded in the mid-eighth century by a
brother-in-law of the Lombard king Aistulf and housed remains of two
sainted popes, S. (relics are said to have been presented by pope
Stephen II) and Adrian III (died here in 885). In 1117, the church was
severely damaged by an earthquake; what one sees today is an imaginative
modern restoration (1913-21) of the structure as rebuilt in the twelfth
century plus its better preserved eleventh-century crypt. A few views
in color follow:
http://www.youritaly.com/comuni/comune_nonantola_36027.html
http://www.abbazia-nonantola.net/pagine/percorsi.html
http://www.popolis.it/Dettaglio.asp?EPID=90!106!90!0!43982!
http://www.mondimedievali.net/Edifici/Emilia/images/nonantol01.jpg
http://www.youritaly.com/comuni/comune_nonantola_36027.html
http://www.tibethouse.net/celebrazioni/immagini/nonantola_big.jpg
Two pages of black-and-white views from the Courtauld, mostly details of
the famous sculptures on the portal, are here:
http://tinyurl.com/7snpg
Another major monument to S. is his chapel in Rome's Santi Quattro
Coronati; this has a cosmatesque floor and mid-thirteenth-century
frescoes illustrating the story of the Donation of Constantine. An
English-language introduction to the church is here:
http://roma.katolsk.no/quattrocoronati.htm
Views of two of the fresco panels are at the bottom of this page:
http://www.scudit.net/mdpapadonazione.htm
Many details are here:
http://www.giovannirinaldi.it/page/rome/santiquattro/
Buon Anno,
John Dillon
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