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Reviews Reviews La Chiesa Di San Menna a Sant’Agata De' Goti (Atti Del Convegno Di Studi, 19 Giugno 2010) a Cura Di Franco Iannotta, Salerno: Arci Postiglione, 2014 reviews reviews La chiesa di San Menna a Sant’Agata de' Goti (Atti del convegno di studi, 19 giugno 2010) a cura di Franco Iannotta, Salerno: Arci Postiglione, 2014 Nino Zchomelidse, Art, Ritual and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy University Park (Pennsylvania): The Pennsyl- vania State University Press, 2014 Elisabetta Scirocco Published within months of each other in 2014, of Sant’Agata (between Caserta and Benevento), these two volumes will represent a solid point of which is well-known to scholars and is one of a reference for the study of the medieval production family of buildings that are traditionally deemed of art in Southern Italy. Specifically, they explore to have derived from the model of the basilica of a geographical area corresponding more or less San Benedetto at Montecassino, rebuilt by Abbot to the region of Campania today, with a focus Desiderius between 1066 and 1071 and, after an on the eleventh and twelfth century. The artis- alternating series of events, destroyed during the tic and monumental heritage of Southern Italy, Second World War 2. This affinity between Mon- a region thrusting into the Mediterranean and tecassino and the later (by thirty years) church conquered in turn by the Longobards, Byzantines, of San Menna is supposedly proven by the ar- Normans, Swabians and Angevins, has been the chitectural configuration and examples of litur- focus of specialised study since the systematic gical furnishings within the church, which are explorations of Heinrich Wilhelm Schulz, Deme- some of the oldest and best preserved of Southern trio Salazaro and Émile Bertaux, and can boast Italy and rightly receive special attention in the an extensive bibliography, especially from the book. The second volume under examination here, late twentieth century. Some authoritative stud- Art, Ritual and Civic Identity in Southern Italy by ies have tackled the most important issues in the Nino Zchomelidse /Fig. 2/, Professor of Art History art-historical field: the question of local “schools”, at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), is specif- the circulation of workshops and models, reasons ically dedicated to liturgical furnishings, a type underlying commissions, and the reconstruction of artistic object that is peculiar to and very com- of works of art and monuments with associated mon throughout Romanesque Campania. This is issues of iconography and style 1. In different ways, a subject that has as yet been little studied, given the two books being reviewed here offer signifi- that works such as ambos and monumental Easter cant contributions to this complex and multi-fac- candlesticks have largely been examined – apart eted historiographic picture. from a few exceptions and in relatively recent La chiesa di San Menna a Sant’Agata de' Goti, edit- years – more for their intrinsic artistic qualities ed by Franco Iannotta /Fig. 1/, provides a compre- than for the ritual function of which they are the 156 hensive study of this church located in the village expression3. As can already be discerned, the two reviews 1 Heinrich Wilhelm Schulz, Denkmaeler der Kunst des Mittelalters in Unteritalien, nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von Ferdinand von Quast, 5 vols, Dresden 1860; Émile Bertaux, L’art dans l’Italie méridionale, 3 vols, Rome 1903 –1905 (see also: L’art dans l’Italie méri- dionale. Aggiornamento dell’opera di Émile Bertaux sotto la direzione di Adriano Prandi, 4 vols, Rome 1978); Demetrio Salazaro, Studi sui monumenti della Italia meridionale dal iv al xiii secolo, 2 vols, Napoli 1871–1877; Lorenza Cochetti Pratesi, “In margine ad alcuni recenti studi sulla scultura medievale nell’Italia meridionale”, Commentari, xvi (1965), pp. 186 –203; Eadem, “In margine ad alcuni recenti studi sulla scultura medievale nell’Italia meridionale”, Commentari, n. s., xviii (1967), pp. 126 –150; Eadem, “In margine ad alcuni recenti studi sulla scultura medievale nell’Italia meridionale. ii. Sui rapporti tra la scultura campana e quella siciliana nel xii secolo”, Commentari, xix (1968), pp. 165 –196; Eadem, “In margine ad alcuni recenti studi sulla scultura medievale nell’Italia meridionale. iii. Sui rapporti tra la scultura campana e quella siciliana”, Commentari, xxi (1970), pp. 255 –290; Francesco Aceto, “I pulpiti di Salerno e la scultura roma- 1 / The church nica della Costiera d’Amalfi”,Napoli Nobilissima, n. s., xviii/5 (1979), of San Menna at pp. 169 –194; Mario D’Onofrio, Valentino Pace, La Campania, (Italia Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Romanica, iv), Milan 1981; Dorothy F. Glass, Romanesque sculpture in Campania. Patrons, programs, and style, Philadelphia 1991; Francesco book cover Gandolfo, La scultura normanno - sveva in Campania: botteghe e modelli, 2 / Art, Ritual and Bari 1999; Manuela Gianandrea, La scena del sacro. L’arredo liturgico Civic Identity in nel basso Lazio tra xi e xiv secolo, Rome 2006; Valentino Pace, Arte medievale in Italia meridionale. 1. La Campania, Naples 2007 [collection Southern Italy, of studies 1975 – 2003]. book cover 2 In substance, there are two monographic studies dedicated to San Menna: Luigi Cielo, Monumenti romanici a Sant’Agata de’ Goti : il duo- mo e la chiesa di San Menna, Rome 1980, and La chiesa di San Menna in Sant’Agata de’ Goti. Icona di storia e di arte, Franco Iannotta ed., Cava volumes are different in approach, genesis and dei Tirreni 2005, in which the essay by the editor is to be noted as it configuration; reading them together is a useful anticipates some of the conclusions about the historic and archaeo- logical details presented in the new volume ( Iannotta, “Nove secoli exercise for highlighting the benefits of two differ- di storia”, Ibidem, pp. 7– 23). 3 Liturgical furnishings as a subject worthy of specific study was the ent perspectives in the study of the monumental topic of the unpublished thesis by Anna Carotti,La suppellettile sacra contexts and their furnishings: a monographic e l’arte dell’intarsio in Campania dall’xi al xiii secolo, university thesis (Università degli Studi di Roma, supervisor : Géza de Francovich), one, dedicated specifically to the church of San Rome 1966 –1967. Carotti returned to the subject in her contribution Menna, offering an in-depth study of the overall to L'Art dans l’Italie méridionale. Aggiornamento (n. 1). The work of Dorothy Glass on Romanesque sculpture in Campania marked architectural group, its history, its significance and the first methodological opening towards a combined analysis of its different components; and a broader, transverse both the formal and functional aspects: see Dorothy F. Glass, “Jonah in Campania: A Late Antique Revival”, Commentari, xxvii (1976), one, dedicated to the study of the principle types of pp. 179 –193; Eadem, “Pseudo -Augustine, Prophets, and Pulpits in liturgical object distributed in a territory through Campania”, dop, il (1987), pp. 215 – 226; Eadem, Romanesque Sculpture in Campania (n. 1), sp. Chapter Seven (“ The Liturgical Programs”). an examination of exemplary monuments. Manuela Gianandrea was instead responsible for the first mono- graphic study of liturgical furnishings in the border area between today’s Lazio and Campania regions: Manuela Gianandrea, La scena 1. La chiesa di San Menna a Sant’Agata de’ Goti del sacro (n. 1). I dedicated my PhD thesis to the liturgical arrange- ment of some major cathedrals in Campania: Elisabetta Scirocco, collects the results of the conference of the same Arredi liturgici dei secoli xi –xiii in Campania: le cattedrali di Salerno, name held on the occasion of the ninth cente- Ravello, Amalfi, Capua, Caserta Vecchia, PhD thesis (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico ii, supervisor : Francesco Aceto), Naples nary of the church’s foundation (1110 – 2010), and 2010, to be published. See also: Elisabetta Scirocco, “L’arredo litur- is published under the aegis of the Diocese of gico della Santissima Trinità di Cava tra xi e xii secolo”, in Riforma della Chiesa, esperienze monastiche e poteri locali. La Badia di Cava e le Cerreto Sannita – Telese – Sant’Agata de’ Goti and sue dipendenze nel Mezzogiorno nei secoli xi–xii, proceedings of the conference (Cava dei Tirreni, 2011), Maria Galante, Giovanni Vitolo, edited by don Franco Iannotta, the church’s priest Giuseppa Zanichelli eds, Florence 2014, pp. 289–302; Elisabetta and passionate scholar of its history. The vol- Scirocco, “Jonah, the Whale and the Ambo. Image and Liturgy in Medieval Campania”, in The Antique Memory and the Middle Ages, ume rounds off a collective scientific undertak- Ivan Foletti, Zuzana Frantová eds, Rome 2015, pp. 87–123; Ruggero ing launched in 2009 thanks to the initiative and Longo, Elisabetta Scirocco, “Sul contesto originario degli avori: gli arredi liturgici della cattedrale salernitana in epoca normanna”, in researches of Ruggero Longo (Università della Gli avori medievali di Amalfi e Salerno. Quaderni del Centro di Cultu- Tuscia) 4, with the support of the local Curia and ra e Storia Amalfitana 8 – Opere e Territorio : Vademecum 1, Francesca Dell’Acqua, Almerinda Cupolo, Pietro Pirrone eds, Amalfi 2015, the involvement of specialists from the universi- pp. 169 –188. ties of Roma La Sapienza, Salerno, Napoli Secon- 4 Ruggero Longo, L’opus sectile medievale in Sicilia e nel meridione nor- manno, PhD thesis (Università della Tuscia, supervisor : Maria An- da Università, and Pisa. daloro), Viterbo 2009. 157 reviews The volume is divided into three parts: the first analysis (Chiara Lambert, Carmine Lubritto and is dedicated to the historical background of the cult Paola Ricci) and a photographic paleoanthropo- of Saint Mennas, a hermit who lived in Samnium logical examination of the items (Gino Fornaciari in the sixth century, and of the foundation of the and Simona Minozzi). church re-dedicated to him within the domain of The main analysis of the monument begins Sant’Agata; the bulk of the volume is given over to with an essay by Ruggero Longo and Giuseppe a careful analysis of the building and its decora- Romagnoli.
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