Caskets of Silver and Ivory from Diverse Parts of the World: Strategic Collecting for an Iberian Treasury
By focusing on San Isidoro de León in the central Middle Ages, this study investigates the multiple meanings behind the presence of objects from other cultures in a royal- monastic treasury, suggesting a reconsideration of the paths by which such pieces ar-rived. The development of the Isidoran coll...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/236561 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/236561 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Treasury San Isidoro de Leon 1063 donation Lucas of Tuy Royal patronage Visual evidence Technical analysis |
| Sumario: | By focusing on San Isidoro de León in the central Middle Ages, this study investigates the multiple meanings behind the presence of objects from other cultures in a royal- monastic treasury, suggesting a reconsideration of the paths by which such pieces ar-rived. The development of the Isidoran collection is reexamined through a close anal-ysis of a charter recording the 1063 donation together with early thirteenth-century writings by Lucas of Tuy. Documentary evidence is further weighed against visual analysis and technical studies of several key pieces from the medieval collection. In particular, the Beatitudes Casket (now at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid) is singled out to demonstrate how art historical, epigraphic, and historical research come together with carbon- 14 testing, revealing that the object was assembled in a very different moment from those traditionally assumed |
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