Tra Medioevo e Settecento: il portale della chiesa di San Marcello a Capua

• Autores: Francesco Gandolfo
• Localización: Confronto: studi e ricerche di storia dell'arte europea, ISSN 1721-6745, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 31-46
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The portal opening onto a side of the church of San Marcello at Capua has always raised more attention for the stylistic reasons of the sculptures that compose it, which are considered to be the work of artists who are not related to the Campania environment, than for their obvius recovery from other contexts and the incoherence of the whole that they make up. Rereading the local sources, it appears possible to place the realization of the portal in the cultural climate of Capua of the early eighteenth century, when, concurrently with the construction site for the restoraion of the Cathedral, a deliberate exaltation of the works referable to the period of the Lombard county or at least considered as such spread out in the city. This attitude has an essential reference point in the architrave of the portal of San Marcello, which was realized with a marble fragment coming from a burial believed to be that of the first Lombard count of the city. On a stylistic level a way of doing predominates in the sculptures, that leads to report the most part of them of sculptors from the area of the Amalfi coast sometime at the end of the twelfth century, beyond their initial disparity of destination.