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THE OTHER BYZANTINE DOORS IN ITALY
THE OTHER BYZANTINE DOORS IN ITALY The series of Byzantine doors made in Constantinople (wood covered with inlaid bronze panels, frames, and handles) continued after the first one was donated to the Cathedral of Amalfi in 1060 by the merchant Mauro di Pantaleone of Amalfi: In 1066, Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino requested a similar door [...]
THE BYZANTINE BRONZE DOOR OF SAN PAOLO FUORI LE MURA IN ROME
THE BYZANTINE BRONZE DOOR OF SAN PAOLO FUORI LE MURA IN ROME This door is part of the group of bronze doors made in Constantinople and sent to Italy, recognizable by the particular style of the damascening designs on the panels, of Byzantine type but slightly Westernized. Just a few years after 1054, the year [...]
THE DOOR OF THE MONTECASSINO ABBEY
THE DOOR OF THE MONTECASSINO ABBEY Desiderio, descendant of a princely family from Benevento, became abbot in 1058 [Photo 1]. The Cassino monk Leone Marsicano in the “Chronica monasterii Casinensis” wrote that around 1065 the abbot Desiderio, while he was architecturally renovating the monastic complex of Montecassino (the reconstruction took 5 years) was struck by [...]
