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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 330: 'Scolpire l'architettura', Sculpting Architecture: Richness and Poverty in the Cistercian Abbeys of Center-North Italy, 12th-14th Centuries, II

Monday 11 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Cîteaux: commentarii cistercienses, Pontigny
Organiser:Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paper 330-aBenedetto de Blachis and His History of Chiaravalle Milanese Abbey: A Rediscovered Manuscript and Its Edition
(Language: English)
Marisa Addomine, Registro Italiano Orologi da Torre, Milano
Index terms: Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 330-bThe Rebirth of the Chiaravalle Clock: A Possible Model According to Leonardo's Drawings and the De Blachis Description
(Language: English)
Daniele Pons, Aries Consulting, Milano
Abstract

In this session the enquiry into Italy's Cistercian past will move to Lombardy in the north where the architecture of Morimondo (1134), Chiaravalle Milanese (1135, founded by Bernard of Clairvaux), and Cerreto Lodigiano (1136) will be explored, along with the smaller abbeys of Acqualunga and Capolago. The subsequent history of Chiaravalle Milanese will then be developed through a late 16th c. history written by a lay brother which describes connections to Milanese nobles and the wider world, as well as a the external appearance of the abbey's clock, also seen by Leonardo. A virtual reconstruction of the clock will be presented.