Books by Fabio Coden
Edited books by Fabio Coden
by Fabio Coden, Giulia Arcidiacono, Ivan Basić, Vlad Bedros, Alberto Crosetto, Zaruhi Hakobyan, Wilfried E. Keil, Justin E A Kroesen, Elisabetta Scirocco, Angeliki Mexia, Silvia Muzzin, Luca Palozzi, Antonino Tranchina, Αντιγόνη Τζιτζιμπάση / Antigoni Tzitzibassi, and Maddalena Vaccaro Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2021 (Minima medievalia), pp. 1-560. (isbn 9788836649211), 2021
Minima medievalia 1 (2013)-5 (2018)
The analysis contained in this series of short contributions covers topics seldom studied in the ... more The analysis contained in this series of short contributions covers topics seldom studied in the past, furthermore it addresses statements that need to be reconsidered through the most recent Italian and European researches. The echoes of antiquity in the Carolingian culture is investigated in the slab with cross in the abbey of S. Bonifacio (Vr) and in the very fine capital of S. Felice in Vicenza; the same attitude in the Romanesque period is found in a frieze rediscovered in the Cathedral of Verona, in a small capital with animal busts in S. Bonifacio and in two corbels survived from the demolition of the porch, originally in the facade of the Ss. Apostoli in Verona. The solutions provided in the crypt of San Felice in Vicenza and the adoption of the alternating system (columns, pilasters: ABAB, ABBA), observable in a homogeneous group of churches of the eleventh and twelfth century between the Verona territory and the Garda Lake, confirm that the Veneto region played a central role in the reception and retransmission of the influences coming from the lagoon area and from the German regions, which made their way through the main communication routes between east, west and north Europe.
Nicholaus, founder of one of the higher level atelier in north Italy, was a sculptor in the Roman... more Nicholaus, founder of one of the higher level atelier in north Italy, was a sculptor in the Romanesque period, working in the first half of the twelfth century. His production is especially investigated as far as the iconographic aspect is concerned. However, among the components that distinguish his sculpture, there is certainly a singular focus on the provision of different types of stone to create studied effects of polychromies. This specific theme, rarely investigated by scholars, is analyzed in the followings contributions, especially in reference to the later production of this workshop of sculptors, operating in the second quarter of the twelfth century.
Some specifi c episodes of early medieval sculpture in a peripheral area – reconsidered in relati... more Some specifi c episodes of early medieval sculpture in a peripheral area – reconsidered in relation to the iconography, the history of the discovery, the style of the epigraphy and the technique of execution –, allow the precise recovering of some of those cultural dynamics which took place in the crucial transition from the Lombard kingdom to the Carolingian world. Under this prospective, in the carved slab of Colognola ai Colli, in the territory of Verona, and in the sarcophagus of Cella di Ovaro, in Carnia, it is possible to fi nd evidence of this particular aesthetics stimuli, only partially convergent, like for example in the diff erent way of understanding the reference to the ancient. Another similar strict approach of identifi cation and comprehension of the building practice, but within the Romanesque architectural language, is presented in the examination of two important religious building near Garda lake, Santa Giustina at Palazzolo and San Giorgio in Val Policella: the traces left by the ancient desk over the wall sections has made possible to read some unknown construction phases and also assess a working method previously identifi ed only marginally. Two contributions are dedicated to the Master of Sommacampagna which, with some unpublished evidences dated to the second half of the fourteenth century, expand the already reach catalogue of this much articulated traveling workshop. Th e frescoes of Pinzolo, Pavillo, Cassana and Gorno, with their style rigid at times, show the typical aspects of a gothic language which had great fortune in the peripheral area, a wide geographic zone. Th e opposite dynamic instead, meaning the circulation of works of art of small scale, more specifi cally in the area between North and South of the Alps, is certifi ed by the bronze thirteenth century censer of Santa Maria di Gorto, always wrongly considered work of the Adriatic area.
Twelve contributions are included in the fourth edition of Minima medievalia, focused on artistic... more Twelve contributions are included in the fourth edition of Minima medievalia, focused on artistic episodes whose developments are rooted directly in Byzantine lands or in sites deeply infl uenced by their culture. A series of liturgical proto-byzantine structures – main and secondary altars – from Asia Minor are examined in close connection with the liturgical praxis adopted in those regions (Diego Peirano). Th e structural, documentary and critical features of the Baptistery of Santa Severina (Calabria) are analysed on the grounds of the unpublished reports of Paolo Orsi, a pioneer scholar of Southern Italy from Trento (Tancredi Bella). Th e iconography of a fabric fragment kept in Rome receives a new interpretation, thanks to clarifi cations that also help to clarify the chronology (Silvia Pedone). A conspicuous corpus of mostly unpublished or marginally known fragments of liturgical furnishings from Saint Mary in Torcello, is collected and rigorously analysed for the fi rst time, even in relation to the second presbytery fence, still present in the basilica (Diego Valenti). A reconstructive hypothesis is given for an extensively reworked capital from Grassaga, near San Donà di Piave, closely akin to the aforementioned objects as concern chronology and geographical location (Fabio Coden). Two essays concern a group of erroneously assessed or unpublished materials, stored in the deposit of the National Museum of Ravenna and in which the Eastern sources and the progressively predominant Latin style are intertwined (Paola Novara). Th e problematic ceramic basins embedded in the façade of the church of Madonna della Stra' in Belfi ore, near Verona, are carefully explored in order to fi gure out the contacts between the Byzantine and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean and its consequences on the regions of the Peninsula (Marica Menon). Subsequently, thanks to unpublished documents discovered in the archives of the Frick Collection, the four historiated columns belonging to the ciborium of Saint Mark in Venice, are reexamined with a highly critical approach which will reopen the debate about the controversial chronology of these very elaborated sculptures (Maria Aimé Villano). Two essays deal with an enkolpion from Rorai Piccolo (Pordenone) – likely of Russian origin, but with a clear Byzantine style – and concentrate both on the iconographic quality and the interpretation of the complicated ancient Cyrillic epigraphs, in order to defi nitely dispel any doubt on the workshop responsible for the artefact (Fabio Coden and Alberto Alberti). Th e last essay draws attention to the relationship between the equestrian representation of the Byzantine Emperor and that of certain Knight Saints depicted in some icons of the XIII th century, through an in-depth analysis of several details which have escaped even the most meticulous critical studies so far (Andrea Babuin).
a cura di F. Coden, in «Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati. Classe di Scienze umane, Lettere ed Arti», a. CCLXVIII, s. IX, VIII, A, 2018, pp. 29-193. (issn 1122-6064), 2018
Th is issue of Minima medievalia hosts fourteen original studies, which, following the tradition ... more Th is issue of Minima medievalia hosts fourteen original studies, which, following the tradition of the series, starting from a specifi c point of view converge around the monographic topic chosen for the occasion. In the following essays, Byzantine sculpture is approached in its various forms, iconographies, techniques, and typologies, over a chronology that spans from the Proto Byzantine period to the Palaiologan era. From the point of view of artistic geography, ample space is given to works of art distributed in areas that are also considerably distant from each other: from the Balkans to the capital Constantinople, including peripherical areas if compared to the main centers of cultural elaboration.
Papers by Fabio Coden
in Allegretto Nuzi e il suo monto, atti della giornata di studi (Fabriano, 29 gennaio 2022), a cura di A. De Marchi, M. Mazzalupi, in «Arte Marchigiana», 12, 2024, pp. 199-251 , 2024
La cattedrale di Piacenza e la civiltà medievale, atti del convegno internazionale di studi (Piacenza, 20-24 settembre 2022), a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, 2024
La storia del Castello di Brescia dal Medioevo all’Ottocento, a cura di M. Merlo, S. Scalia, 2023
Atti della giornata di studi “A cent'anni dalla ricostruzione del ciborio di San Giorgio di Valpolicella (1923-2023). Nuovi studi sulla pieve” (San Giorgio di Valpolicella, Sala capitolare, 21 ottobre 2023), in Annuario storico della Valpolicella 2021-2023, vol. XXXVII, 2023
Atti dell’Accademia “San Marco”, 2023
Hortus Artium Medievalium, 2021
in atti del convegno internazionale ‘La Questio de aqua et terra di Dante Alighieri: testo e contesto’ (Verona, 20-21 gennaio 2020), in «Stefi. Studi di erudizione e di filologia italiana», X, 2021-22, pp. 29-112. (issn 2281-602x), 2022
in «Archivio Veneto», s. VI, 24, 2022, pp 135-142. (issn 0392-0291), 2022
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- Single (free)- standing towers
- Monastic Towers
- Towers in maritime forts, harbors and arsenals
- Towers in Palaces
- Donjons
- Towers with gates
- Byzantine Towers in Asia Minor (Anatolia)
- Towers of the Frankish, Venetian and Genoese rulers
- Towers of the Order of St. John
- Genoese Towers in Turkey
- Seljuk Towers
- Ottoman Towers
- Post-Byzantine Towers
- Towers with canons
- Tower Houses of the Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and
early Ottoman Period
- Inscriptions on Towers
- Heraldry in Towers
- Buttressed Towers