Détruire, reconstruire, redéfinir

Giffin, Erin (31. December 2018): Détruire, reconstruire, redéfinir. La fragmentation volontaire de la Santa Casa de Loreto et ses altérations répliquées. In: Perspective : actualité en histoire de l'art, Vol. 2: pp. 209-217

Abstract

As the site of the Annunciation, the Santa Casa di Loreto resonates with the past, acting as a potent pilgrimage destination in Catholic Europe. But this Nazarene building does not receive devotion in the Holy Land. The Santa Casa resides first in the eastern Italian town of Loreto—to which the edifice purportedly flew in the thirteenth century—and also in the many copies of the edifice populating church naves, chapels, and cloisters throughout Europe. Signs of tactile communion appear in many of these Sante Case, darkening the carefully rendered uneven brick and stone interspersed with purposefully crumbling frescoed surfaces. Each Holy House effectively conveys the contemporary structure into new communities, “performing” devotion through perpetual acts of fragmentation that reinforce Loretan adoration.

• Item Type: Journal article
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 680192
• EU Projects: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Starting Grant > ERC Grant 680192: SACRIMA - The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Santa Casa; Loreto; Replica; Pilgrimage; Cult Devotion; Tactility; Degradation; Fragmentation
• Faculties: History and Art History
• Subjects: 200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity; 700 Arts and recreation > 700 Arts; 700 Arts and recreation > 720 Architecture; 700 Arts and recreation > 730 Sculpture, ceramics and metalwork
• ISSN: 2269-7721
• Language: French