medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:24 am, Jim Bugslag wrote:
> Steve,
> I'm certainly not an expert on Paschal Candlesticks, but largely from
> my readings concerning the bronze "column" of Bishop Bernward of
> Hildesheim, created at the beginning of the 11th century as a Paschal
> Candelestick, it would seem that they are primarily an Italian
> (possibly Roman) phenomenon, and Bernward's example also makes use of
> a continuous spiralling narrative around it, like Trajan's Column in
> Rome, so it was probably made specifically to emulate Roman works.
> There is a large bibliography on Bernward's works, which would
> undoubtedly direct you to further studies of Paschal Candesticks.
The paschal candelabrum in San Paolo fuori le Mura is from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century:
http://www.internetica.it/SPaolofM-ceroPasquale.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspa/215915731/sizes/l/
Other Roman examples:
a) in the basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
http://tinyurl.com/yjfq5vb:
http://tinyurl.com/y97b93
http://tinyurl.com/ykv9d25
b) in the chiesa dei santi Nereo e Achilleo, where in this early twentieth-century view one can see a smaller version of the one in Santa Cecilia right on an ambo (many are positioned next to an ambo) and a free-standing fifteenth-century example not far from it:
Contemporary analogues (C12-C13) exist in at least two parts of south-central Italy (Abruzzo; southern Lazio and Campania) as well as in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo (the latter one stylistically rather close to to the one in San Paolo fuori le Mura). These examples are arranged by location from North to South and not by date:
c) in the ex-chiesa abbaziale San Clemente in Casauria at Castiglione a Casauria (PE) in Abruzzo:
http://tinyurl.com/yjrnqhw
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1339/829147990_ebac0c043b_o.jpg
d) the chiesa abbaziale di Santa Maria Arabona in Manoppello (PE) in Abruzzo:
http://tinyurl.com/y97b93
http://tinyurl.com/ylacu6y
http://tinyurl.com/yd2nucw
e) in the chiesa collegiata di Santa Maria della Pietà in Cori (LT) in southern Lazio:
http://www.nuovipanorami.it/italia/lazio/cori/candelabro.jpg
http://www.nuovipanorami.it/italia/lazio/cori/candelabro2.jpg
f) in the cattedrale dei Santi Pietro e Cesareo in Terracina (LT) in southern Lazio:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo907241.htm
g) in the cattedrale di Sant'Erasmo in Gaeta (LT) in southern Lazio (but until 1927 in Campania):
http://tinyurl.com/yg83nge
http://tinyurl.com/yfk537u
h) in the cattedrale di San Pietro in Minturno (LT) in southern Lazio (but until 1927 in Campania):
http://tinyurl.com/ycgphdt
i) in the cattedrale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo in Sessa Aurunca (CE) in Campania:
http://tinyurl.com/ylzec4b
http://tinyurl.com/yhfe7ed
j) in the cattedrale di San Matteo in Salerno (SA) in Campania:
http://tinyurl.com/y97l64y
http://tinyurl.com/yewxpub
http://www.ingenioloci.beniculturali.it/smatteo/86.htm
k) in the chiesa abbaziale della Santissima Trinità at Cava de' Tirreni (SA) in Campania:
http://tinyurl.com/ozn96
l) in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/y9cuytv
http://tinyurl.com/y9cuytv
http://www.thais.it/scultura/sch00530.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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