Publication details
Milano capitale, tra Roma e Ravenna : circolazione di botteghe, di materiali e di idee
| Title in English | Milan Capital, between Rome and Ravenna : Circulation of Workshops, Materials and Ideas |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In Milan, two mosaic decorations survive today: Sant’Aquilino (400 A.D. c.) and San Vittore in Ciel d’oro (500 A.D. c.). Manifestations of the same aesthetic tradition, the two can become fundamental to the analysis of the development of production techniques, thanks to the use of material analyses. Moreover, the models employed in each, as well as decorative elements, reveal cultural and intellectual trajectories in the Late Antique world. The fascinating aspect is that in these cases visual ideas traveled in ways that were different from the techni- cal know-how. To conclude, the monuments show the radical transformation re- orientation of the fourth-century globalized world by c. 500 CE into a different commercial and artistic culture. |
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