The pulpit, overhead structure from which are proclaimed the sacred readings, becomes the object of study in the itinerant international conference on the Tuscan stained ambos running from Barga, you then develop into other major Tuscan cities such as Pisa, Pistoia, Siena and Florence.
In Barga conference tackling issues that always fascinate scholars, to understand why among the XII and XIV centuries, was born in Tuscany the need to view the contents of the Gospel in the place of its liturgical proclamation, and what this innovation has relationships with the spirituality of the time, with the preaching, with the unborn sacred theater.
programme:
hours 16:00
E la parola si fece bellezza (And the Word became beauty). Conference.
L’Ambone istoriato toscano e la spiritualità dei secoli XII-XIII (The Tuscan storied pulpit and spirituality of the centuries XII-XIII) -Timothy Verdon, Stanford University, Florence.
Il pulpito di Barga nel contesto: immagine, rito, architettura (The pulpit of Barga in the context of: image, ritual, architecture) – Elisa Di Natale, University of Udine.
La Nascita di Cristo nell’interpretazione dei Guidi (The Birth of Christ in the interpretation of the Guidi): the role of the pulpit of Barga in the context of a growing trend to istoriazione between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Gigetta Dalli Regoli, University of Pisa
hours 21.00
Quem queritis Mystery Plays in Latin – Sacred typical representation of the period of the ambos, played by the theater group Elements.
E LA PAROLA SI FECE BELLEZZA
Barga Duomo San Cristoforo
2016 May 19
16:00 Conference, 21:00 Sacred representation
free admission, subject to availability of places