Camposanto, Terra santa: Picturing the Holy Land in Pisa
2003; Volume: 24; Issue: 48 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1483733
ISSN0391-9064
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Architectural Studies
ResumoInspired by scholarship on historic memory and sacred topography, the article proposes a new interpretation of the decorative program of the Camposanto in Pisa. Enclosing earth brought from Mount Calvary during the crusades, the Camposanto was conceived not only as a cemetery but as a reliquary church and place of pilgrimage. Its frescoes recreated the experience of pilgrimage by evoking the sacred sites of the Holy Land, inaccessible from Pisa due to naval losses and the crusades. A coda to the article publishes a drawing for Benozzo Gozzoli's Punishment of Korah, Dathan, and Abiron, tentatively ascribing it to Andrea Boscoli and reconstructing the lost fresco.
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