Abstract
The essay analyzes one of the themes, that of the alleged tomb of Queen Ansa in the Lombard female monastery of San Salvatore in Brescia, on which historiography of the last thirty years has written everything. In particular, archival papers, chronicle sources, archaeological data and careful examination of the existing material structures of the Desiderian basilica show not only that a tomb of King Desiderius' wife never existed in the monastic church, but also that the "arcosolium tomb", identified in some studies, was actually the side door of the basilica, thanks to which the nuns accessed the central cloister of the monastery passing through the church.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The tomb of Ansa between myth, historiography and twentieth-century revival |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | “Domus sapienter staurata”. Scritti di storia dell’arte per Marina Righetti |
| Editors | Iacobini Antonio, Pistilli Pio Francesco D’Achille Anna Maria |
| Pages | 765-774 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Ansa (queen)
- Ansa regina
- Federico Odorici
- Pietro da Ponte
- San Salvatore-Santa Giulia di Brescia
- San Salvatore-Santa Giulia of Brescia
- chiostro
- cloister
- door
- nineteenth-century transformations
- porta
- tomb
- tomba
- trasformazioni ottocentesche