Title & Author:

Walls and memory : the Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) : from late Roman monastery to Renaissance villa and beyond / Elizabeth Fentress [and others], eds.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2005.

Description:

445 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 27 cm.

Series:

Disciplina monastica ; 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-436) and index.
The Sixth-Century Abbey / Elizabeth Fentress -- The Sixth-Century Abbey / Caroline A. Bruzelius & Caroline J. Goodson -- The Frescoes of the Church and Oratory / Serena Romano -- The Devotional Paintings / Caroline J. Goodson -- "Apud Alatrium, Campaniae Oppidum": Giovanni Tortelli and the Abbey under Pope Nicholas V / Antonio Manfredi -- The Image of Giovanni Tortelli at Work and at Court / Ingrid D. Rowland -- From Medieval Monastery to Early Renaissance Villa: the Patronage of Giovanni Tortelli / Stephanie C. Leon -- The Abbey from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century From Villa to Fattoria: the Abbey as Income / Stephanie C. Leone -- Medievalizing the Abbey: the Twentieth-Century "in Stile" Renovations of Romolo Giralico / Marco Rossi -- "Beni si urbani, che rustici": The Abbey Lands from the Sixth to the Nineteenth Century / Margaret L. Laird -- Walls, Memory, and Appropriations / Elizabeth Fentress -- Selected Primary Sources for the Abbey of S. Sebastiano / Caroline J. Goodson, Margaret L. Laird, Stephanie C. Leone, Antonio Manfredi -- Transcribed documents / Margaret L. Laird, Stephanie C. Leon, Antonio Manfredi -- The archaeology of the building : the structural stratigraphic units / Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson -- Masonry Typlogy / Caroline J. Goodson -- The excavations / Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson -- Tracing the property parcels / Margaret L. Laird -- the field survey / Margaret L. Laird.
Text in English with some transcribed documents in Italian.

Summary:

"The abbey of San Sebastiano, which lies not far from the town of Alatri in Southern Lazio, preserves within its walls almost fifteen hundred years of history. This history is unusually bound to a number of important figures, from Saint Benedict to Pope Nicholas V and his circle of humanists. For the past four years a small team has been investigating the extant structures of the abbey, analyzing the stratigraphy of the standing walls and tracing the various building phases. The study has produced some starting discoveries: the plan and preserved walls of one of the oldest monasteries in Europe, and one of the earliest Renaissance villas. The book gives an account of the architecture and the history of the building, showing how each phase relates to the previous one both structurally and thematically."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9782503515779 (pbk.)
2503515770 (pbk.)

Subject:

Johannes Tortellius 1400-1466
Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy) History.
Badia di San Sebastiano (Alatri, Italie) Histoire.
Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy)
San Sebastiano Kloster
Alatri San Sebastiano Kloster.
Abbeys Italy Alatri History.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Alatri Medieval, 500-1500.
Art chrétien 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) Histoire Alatri (Italie)
Abbayes Italie Alatri Histoire.
Abbeys
Buildings
Christian art and symbolism Medieval
Archeologische vindplaatsen.
Abdijen.
Kloostergebouwen.
Alatri (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Alatri (Italie) Constructions.
Italy Alatri
Lazio.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Fentress, Elizabeth.
Disciplina monastica ; 2.

Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241591
Call No.: BIB 171453
Status: Available