San Adriano a San Demetrio Corone. Studio analitico degli affreschi pittorici a confronto di analoghe opere meridionali

Abstract

The work focuses on one of the major monuments related to the monasticism of southern Italy, the church of San Adriano in San Demetrio Corone in the province of Cosenza, an ethno-anthropological arbí«reshí« jewel. The study is based on the cycle of frescoes that occupy the sub-arches and the walls of the minor naves inside the church, dated between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which in addition to representing an important narrative complex, it refers to similar works in the major ecclesiastical buildings of the south, including Calabria. In Calabria, in fact, we find terms of comparisons in the church of the Spedale of Scalea, in the church of Panaghia of Rossano, in the Cattolica of Stilo and in the church of the Campo of San Andrea Apostolo dello Jonio. The elaborate wants to demonstrate how these representations show, although they present a different date, a technical similarity with analogous frescoes of the Norman period present in Sicily, in particular similarities with those present in the Palatine Chapel of Palermo and the Duomo of Cefalù and Monreale. In support of this thesis, we propose the image analysis of some portions of the pictorial works supported by a careful historical-artistic study, with the aim to create a union between non-invasive and theoretical-executive diagnostic investigations. The section that we want to investigate concerns the actual status of the asset and will highlight a summary of the paintings in order to provide a general overall status, that it aims to be the starting point for a more in-depth future analysis of the whole complex considered

Keywords

• Ciclo di affreschi
• conservazione
• restauro
• edifici storico-monumentali