Una cosmografia cristiana? : le radici astronomiche della cupola del perduto edificio martiriale di San Prisco presso Capua (V sec.)

Title: Una cosmografia cristiana? : le radici astronomiche della cupola del perduto edificio martiriale di San Prisco presso Capua (V sec.)
Variant title:
  • A Christian cosmography? : the astronomical origins of the Dome of a Lost Martyrial building
  • Křesťanská kosmografie? : astronomické kořeny kupole ztraceného památníku San Prisco u Capui (5. století)
Author: Croci, Chiara
Source document: Convivium. 2018, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 114-127
Extent
114-127
  • ISSN
    2336-3452 (print)
    2336-808X (online)
Type: Article
Language
English
Summary language
Czech
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Abstract(s)
Known only through modern copies and descriptions, the iconography of the lost mosaics of the fifth-century building in the San Prisco cemetery on the Appian Way outside Capua remains unique in Early Christian art. Similarities between the composition scheme of the Capuan dome's mosaic and images in astronomical treatises, such as the miniature of the Ptolemy's easy Tables, attest to the influence of cosmological models in the mosaic's iconography. Specific connections between cosmological imagery and depictions in the Early Christian world emerge from the analysis, enabling the author to present San Prisco's mosaic as a Christian Cosmology adapted, by members of a highly cultivated ecclesiastical elite, to the devotional needs of the Capuan martyrial site.
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