medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Nancy Caciola schrieb:
> I've seen a little one --- maybe 6 or 8 inches in diameter --- inscribed on
> a pillar on the outside porch of a church in Lucca --- sorry, but I don't
> remember which edifice.
It is the Dome, S. Martino, at the right pillar of the porch adjacent to the
campanile, built in the last decades of the 12th c., the labyrinth measuring
ca. 50 cm. In the 18th c. a scenic relief was visible in the center of the
labyrinth, perhaps Theseus and the minotaur, an inscription tells this myth. At
the foot of the pillar there is an inscription, „SEPVLTVRA ROLANDI / DE
BRACAN“, and the nowadays conviction that labyrinths - since Daidalos invented
and built the first - are signs of the architect made it the gravestone of an
architect Rolando. But in my opinion the inscription of the labyrinth itself
and the one with Rolando are rather different. And looking in the local
prosopography I found a certain „Rolandus de Bacciana“, a canonicus acting f.
e. 1181 in a contract. So the topos of the architect as "dedalus alter" could
not bei joined with this monument.
At last the hint to another book, with a solid catalogue and a reserved text:
Hermann Kern: Labyrinthe, Munich: Prestel Verlag (1982) 1999, ISBN
3-7913-2096-3.
Marcus Frings
Darmstadt University of Technology
Art History
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