The author's doctorate thesis entiled Design and Symbol in Memorial Monuments reconstructs developments in and derivations from memo¬rial monuments, from antiquity to the post-war years. An attempt is made to highlight the main change which occurred in the representative models applied to architectural monuments, taking a selection from the broad periods of pagan antiquity, the Christian era to the Napoleonic period, and modern times. The premises of the thesis are ratified by "exemplary" instances of funeral architecture such as the Niccolini Chapel in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, the Heme Caveau de Tom- beaux in the Eglise-Pantheon de Sain- te-Genevieve in Paris, and lastly the Monument to the Victims of Nazi Concertration Camps in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. The interest in memorial monuments is a reaction to the distinction effectively made today between "monument" and "memory there is a need to bring these concepts back together in an etymological sense, with the aim of returning at last to a reflection on architecture as representation of the spiritual and social customs of its age. It is in this sense that an allegorical link can be seen between Christian funeral art and the "cult of the dead " - a subject already dealt with the view of St. Paul, later taken up by the whole of Christianity, in opposition to the secular or pagan view of death as the ineluctable fulfilment of a negative destiny. References - V. JANKELEVITCH, IM mori, Paris 1977 - A. GRABAR, L'arte paleocristiana: 200- 395, Milano 1980 - L. LE GOFF, L'uomo medievale, Roma-Bari 1993 - E. BACINO, Golfi del silenzio. Iconografie funerarie e cimiteri d'Italia, Poggibonsi, 1991 - E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture FranQaise du XI au XVIsiècle, Paris, 1993 - R. WITTKOWER, Principi architetttonici dell'età dell'Umanesimo, Torino 1988 - P. CARBONARA, Architettura pratica, Torino 1958 - A. LE NORMAND-ROMAIN, Mémoire de Marbre/La sculpture funéraire en France 1804- 1914, Paris 1995 - R. AUZELLE, Derrnières demeu- res, Paris 1965 - J-D. URBAIN, l.'archipel des morts/le sentiment de la mori et les dérives de la mémoire, Plon, Paris 1989 - O. SPENGLER, Il tramonto dell'Occidente, Parma 1998 - GIAMBLICO, Il numero e il divino, a cura di F. Romano, Milano 1995 - R. KRAUTHEIMER, Architettura paleocristiana e bizantina, Torino 1986 - U. STRATHAUS-B. REICHI.IN, BBPR- Monumenlo ai caduti nei campi nazisti - 1945-1995 - Il segno della memoria, Milano 1995 - C.M. MARTINI, Lettera Pastorale: 'quale bellezza salverà il mondo?', Milano 1999

Il simbolo "moralizzato" cristiano nei monumenti alla memoria / parte prima

BIANCHI, ALESSANDRO
2001-01-01

Abstract

The author's doctorate thesis entiled Design and Symbol in Memorial Monuments reconstructs developments in and derivations from memo¬rial monuments, from antiquity to the post-war years. An attempt is made to highlight the main change which occurred in the representative models applied to architectural monuments, taking a selection from the broad periods of pagan antiquity, the Christian era to the Napoleonic period, and modern times. The premises of the thesis are ratified by "exemplary" instances of funeral architecture such as the Niccolini Chapel in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, the Heme Caveau de Tom- beaux in the Eglise-Pantheon de Sain- te-Genevieve in Paris, and lastly the Monument to the Victims of Nazi Concertration Camps in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. The interest in memorial monuments is a reaction to the distinction effectively made today between "monument" and "memory there is a need to bring these concepts back together in an etymological sense, with the aim of returning at last to a reflection on architecture as representation of the spiritual and social customs of its age. It is in this sense that an allegorical link can be seen between Christian funeral art and the "cult of the dead " - a subject already dealt with the view of St. Paul, later taken up by the whole of Christianity, in opposition to the secular or pagan view of death as the ineluctable fulfilment of a negative destiny. References - V. JANKELEVITCH, IM mori, Paris 1977 - A. GRABAR, L'arte paleocristiana: 200- 395, Milano 1980 - L. LE GOFF, L'uomo medievale, Roma-Bari 1993 - E. BACINO, Golfi del silenzio. Iconografie funerarie e cimiteri d'Italia, Poggibonsi, 1991 - E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture FranQaise du XI au XVIsiècle, Paris, 1993 - R. WITTKOWER, Principi architetttonici dell'età dell'Umanesimo, Torino 1988 - P. CARBONARA, Architettura pratica, Torino 1958 - A. LE NORMAND-ROMAIN, Mémoire de Marbre/La sculpture funéraire en France 1804- 1914, Paris 1995 - R. AUZELLE, Derrnières demeu- res, Paris 1965 - J-D. URBAIN, l.'archipel des morts/le sentiment de la mori et les dérives de la mémoire, Plon, Paris 1989 - O. SPENGLER, Il tramonto dell'Occidente, Parma 1998 - GIAMBLICO, Il numero e il divino, a cura di F. Romano, Milano 1995 - R. KRAUTHEIMER, Architettura paleocristiana e bizantina, Torino 1986 - U. STRATHAUS-B. REICHI.IN, BBPR- Monumenlo ai caduti nei campi nazisti - 1945-1995 - Il segno della memoria, Milano 1995 - C.M. MARTINI, Lettera Pastorale: 'quale bellezza salverà il mondo?', Milano 1999
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