Prime riflessioni su alcuni manufatti medievali reimpiegati in età moderna nel meridione della Sardegna

Andrea Pala

2021-01-01

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Abstract

This essay is the result of a preliminary exploration of some episodes of reuse of Medieval sculptural artefacts during the Modern Age in Sardinia. The first part focuses on the cases detected in the city of Cagliari, in particular in the Cathedral of Santa Maria. Here during the 16th century the extraordinary pulpit realized by master Guglielmo between 1159 and 1162 for the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa and transferred to Cagliari in 1312, was dismantled and the pieces were reused and re-arranged. An unpublished sculptural fragment, to be attributed to Guglielmo himself, will be presented. Some other cases of reuse related to the city of Cagliari and to some important religious centers of southern Sardinia will be finally analized.