Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome
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Author_Kristin B. Aavitsland
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Cistercian Monasteries
Cistercian monasticism
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Cycle's Iconography
Cycle’s Iconography
De Natura Rerum
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Genesis Cycle
Honorius III
humana
Longthorpe Tower
medieval iconography
monasteries
Nicholas III
Opus Dei
Palais Des Papes
Palazzo Dei Priori
panel
papal Rome history
Pictorial Programme
picture
Picture Panels
Pope Honorius III
Romanesque frescoes
tacuinum
Tacuinum Sanitatis
thirteenth-century art
Unicorn Fable
visual florilegium interpretation
vita
Vita Humana
Vita Humana Cycle
Walters Art Museum
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138273078
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. Furthermore, it considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making, and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art. Since the discovery of the frescoes in the 1960s, the iconographic programme of the cycle has remained mysterious, and an adequate analysis of the Vita Humana cycle as a whole has so far been lacking. Kristin B. Aavitsland covers this gap in the scholarship on Roman art circa 1300, and also presents the first interpretative discussion of the frescoes that is up-to-date with the architectural investigations undertaken in the monastery around 2000. Aavitsland proposes a rationale behind the conception of the fresco cycle, thereby providing a key for understanding its iconography and shedding new light on thirteenth-century Cistercian culture.
Kristin B. Aavitsland is an art historian and medievalist, engaged as a Fellow in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.
