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Chapter | San Francesco Solano il ‘Taumaturgo del Nuovo Mondo’

San Francesco Solano il ‘Taumaturgo del Nuovo Mondo’

Uno studio iconologico a partire da un paliotto a scagliola in Santa Maria in Aracoeli

Abstract

The following study is based on the observation of a scagliola frontal from the second half of the 17th century in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. The decoration, representing saint Francis Solanus playing the violin to the birds as its subject, becomes the occasion for an iconographic and iconological study that investigates the figure of the Franciscan missionary saint and, going backwards, that of saint Francis of Assisi, comparing them with those of Adam and Orpheus.


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Submitted: Oct. 28, 2021 | Published May 13, 2022 | Language: it

Keywords Hagiography • Violin • Iconology • Music • Pseudomorphosis • Franciscanism • Animals

Copyright © 2022 Claudio Sagliocco. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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