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Clement's New Clothes Clement’s New Clothes. The Destruction of Old S. Clemente in Rome, the Eleventh-Century Frescoes, and the Cult of (Anti)Pope Clement III by Lila Yawn Reti Medievali Rivista, 13, 1 (2012) <http://rivista.retimedievali.it> Framing Clement III, (Anti)Pope, 1080-1100 Umberto Longo, Lila Yawn (eds.) Firenze University Press 1 Reti Medievali Rivista, 13, 1 (2012) <http://rivista.retimedievali.it> ISSN 1593-2214 ©2012 Firenze University Press DOI 10.6092/1593-2214/343 Framing Clement III, (Anti)Pope, 1080-1100 Umberto Longo, Lila Yawn (eds.) Clement’s New Clothes. The Destruction of Old S. Clemente in Rome, the Eleventh-Century Frescoes, and the Cult of (Anti)Pope Clement III by Lila Yawn Sometime not long after mid August of 1099, the church of S. Clemente 1 in Rome was decapitated . By then its nave and aisles had been partly buried by the gradual rising of the ground between the Oppian and Caelian hills, and at an unrecorded moment in the opening years of the twelfth century, a delib- 2 erate act of destruction finished off the process . Thousands of cubic meters of earth and detritus were packed into the aisles and nave and a floor built on 3 top flush with the tops of the capitals of the nave colonnade . On the north side, parts of the nave wall and clerestory were preserved and incorporated into the outer perimeter of a new church, which sat directly on top of the ear- 4 lier edifice, dissimulating its presence while mimicking its outlines . 1 Rainerius of Bleda (Paschal II) was elected pope in S. Clemente on August 13 or 14, 1099. On his election: Le Liber Pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, ed. L. Duchesne, vol. 2, Paris 1892, p. 296; J. Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry of S. Clemente in Rome, Rome 1989 (San Clemente Miscellany III), p. 59, 118; G. M. Cantarella, Pasquale II, in Enciclopedia dei papi, Roma 2000, vol. 2, p. 228; E. Parlato and S. Romano, Roma e il Lazio: il romanico, Milan0 2001, p. 29-31. For a reconstruction of the basilica without its roof, see M. Andaloro, La pittura medievale a Roma, 312-1431. Atlante, percorsi visivi, Viterbo-Roma 2006, p. 177, fig. V. 2 Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 53-57, 101-104; F. Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani, la basilica paleocristiana e le fasi altomedievali, Roma 1992 (San Clemente Miscellany IV, 1), p. 227-235. 3 Prior to the depositing of the fill, the basilica was painstakingly despoiled of its marbles and other valuables, all openings in its walls were blocked, and rough support walls were built in the nave and between its columns to support the colonnades and outer north wall of the new church. Parts of the narthex and north aisle probably remained accessible (Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani cit., p. 234-235). The illustrations in Andaloro, La Pittura medievale a Roma cit., p. 168, 177, 180-185, are especially useful for visualizing the spatial relations between the fres- coes and space of the church. 4 R. Krautheimer, et al., Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae. Le basiliche cristiane antiche di Roma (Sec. IV-IX), Città del Vaticano 1937-1980, vol. 1, p. 130-131, and tav. XX; Reti Medievali Rivista, 13, 1 (2012) <http://rivista.retimedievali.it> 175 [2] Framing Clement III, (Anti)Pope, 1080-1100 On the south side, the clerestory of the ancient basilica was removed to make room for the colonnade of the new church, and in the process two splendid frescoes executed only a decade or two, and perhaps only a few years, earlier had their tops cut away, depriving more than a dozen painted 5 figures of their upper bodies and heads . An enthroned Christ was lopped off at the waist. The archangels Michael and Gabriel were relieved of their torsos and heads. So were Sts. Nicholas and Peter and two images of the first-cen- tury pope and martyr St. Clement of Rome, dedicatee of the church. The question that no one has yet satisfyingly answered is: why? After the rediscovery of the early Christian complex in the nineteenth century, archae- ologists and art historians long considered the entombment of the ancient basilica – which I will call Old S. Clemente – and its transformation into the foundations for the twelfth-century New S. Clemente a response to damage 6 done during the Norman sack of Rome in 1084 . Multiple buildings, includ- ing SS. Quattro Coronati, located just uphill on the Caelian, were harmed or gutted by fire in the raid, but as Joan Barclay Lloyd and others have observed, 7 Old S. Clemente seems to have escaped similar damage . To date no traces of fire associable with the Norman incursion have been found there nor any direct evidence of other specific physical traumas that might have prompted 8 the edifice’s abandonment . By 1099 the early Christian basilica was nearly seven hundred years old, eight hundred in its external walls, and cumulative structural problems, along with the rising level of the soil, may have encour- aged the decision to inter it, as happened with various other edifices in Rome 9 in the twelfth century . All the same, structural renovations to the basilica in Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani cit., p. 137-39, 235, fig. 137, and tav. VI; Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 104-109. On the fill and ground level, see espe- cially F. Guidobaldi, Gli scavi del 1993-95 nella basilica di S. Clemente a Roma e la scoperta del battistero paleocristiano. Nota preliminare, in «Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana», 73 (1997), 2, p. 462-465. 5 For a review of opinions about the frescoes and recent bibliography, see S. Romano, Riforma e tradizione 1050-1198 (La Pittura medievale a Roma, Corpus, Volume IV), Milano 2006, p. 129- 150. Color photographs are available in Romano, Riforma e tradizione cit., p. 138-139, 145-146; Andaloro, La pittura medievale a Roma cit., p. 184; and Parlato and Romano, Roma e il Lazio cit., p. 33. 6 For ideas about the impact of the Norman sack at Old S. Clemente, see Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 54-57, 103, 117-118; Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani cit., p. 56-57; Romano, Riforma e tradizione cit., p. 129. 7 Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 54-57, 103; Romano, Riforma e tradizione cit., p. 129. On the damage of 1084 in general, see L. Hamilton, Memory, Symbol, and Arson: Was Rome ‘Sacked’ in 1084?, in «Speculum», 78 (2003), 2, p. 378-399; on the destruc- tion and twelfth-century reconstruction of SS. Quattro Coronati: Krautheimer, Corpus Basilicarum cit., vol. 4, p. 3-4, 30-34. 8 Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 54-57, 117-118; Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani cit., passim; cf. Krautheimer, Corpus Basilicarum cit., vol. 1, p. 131- 132. On the improbability of serious damage in Rome from the earthquake of 1091, see D. Molin, S. Castenetto, E. Di Loreto, et al., Sismicità di Roma, in Memorie descrittive della carta geolog- ica d’Italia, vol. L, La Geologia di Roma. Il Centro Storico, ed. R. Funiciello, Roma 1995, p. 331- 408, esp. p. 345-346; on the rising ground level around the basilica: Guidobaldi, Gli scavi del 1993-95 cit., p. 462-468. 9 Guidobaldi, S. Clemente: gli edifici romani cit., p. 97-156, 234-235; Barclay Lloyd, The 176 Reti Medievali Rivista, 13, 1 (2012) <http://rivista.retimedievali.it> Clement’s New Clothes [3] the late eleventh century and the addition of a major fresco cycle in the same period strongly suggest that the necessity of rebuilding Old S. Clemente at a higher level was not obvious in those years and that the subsequent decision 10 to expunge the venerable building from the landscape came about abruptly . Precisely what stimulated Church authorities to take this radical action some- time after August of 1099, when Paschal II was elected pope in the basilica, and probably well before Paschal’s death in 1118 remains one of the great enigmas of medieval Roman monumental history. 1. A Painting Cycle Damned? In a publication of 2007, Valentino Pace proposed an intriguing and novel solution – namely, that the filling in of Old S. Clemente was an act of damnatio memoriae, a willful obliteration prompted by some association between the eleventh-century frescoes of the church and Paschal II’s archen- emy, the philo-imperial pope Clement III, antipope from the Gregorian, or 11 reform-party, perspective . Wibert of Ravenna al secolo, Clement III was elected by the Synod of Brixen in 1080 to replace Gregory VII, whom the synod had declared deposed, and from late March of 1084 until well into the 12 1090s, his was the most persistent and noticeable papal presence in Rome . Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 103, 117-118; F. Guidobaldi, C. Lalli, M. Paganelli, and C. Angelelli, San Clemente. Gli scavi più recenti (1992-2000), in Roma dall’antichità al medioevo, II. Contesti tardoantichi e altomedievali, ed. L. Paroli and L. Vendittelli, Milano-Roma 2004, p. 392, 398. 10 On the renovations, see Barclay Lloyd, The Medieval Church and Canonry cit., p. 117-118. 11 V. Pace, La Riforma e i suoi programmi figurativi: il caso romano, fra realtà storica e mito storiografico, in Roma e la riforma gregoriana, ed. S. Romano and J. Enckell, Roma 2007, p. 56- 57. See also Romano, Riforma e tradizione cit., p. 26-27; and P. Claussen, Un nuovo campo della storia dell’arte.
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