A New Chronological Proposal for the Early Medieval Liturgical Installations of the Church of San Lorenzo in Verona

Abstract

This article analyzes for the first time the largest corpus of Early Medieval sculptures in the city of Verona, located in the church of San Lorenzo. Until now, these sculptures had never been well studied and are currently placed in a courtyard outside the church, reason why they are completely ruined. Thanks to the invaluable historical photographs that were taken at the end of the 19th century and which are now in the Avery Library in New York, it was possible for me to reconstruct the pieces and their decorative motifs. Thanks to this operation, I was able to compare the more than 30 sculptural fragments with other pieces from the Verona area and propose new chronologies for the Early Medieval liturgical installation of San Lorenzo, which includes fragments of a ciborium, fragments of pillars and parts of plutei. In my opinion, these pieces are not homogeneous, but were made at different times between the end of the 8th century and the beginning of the 9th century.