Da Occidente a Oriente. Alcuni casi di circolazione e ricezione di modelli nell’architettura e nella scultura dell’Albania fra XII e XIV secolo

Abstract

This article aims to define some dynamics about cultural/artistic links in the Southern Adriatic Sea, focusing on the Albanian territories in the Late Middle Ages. In this framework, not well known case studies are presented as emblematic of the circulation of ideas and models, hypothesizing the original background of workshops and commissioners where possible, to better understand some transfers. Sporadic and fragmentary evidences or ruins, in the best cases highly stratified, testify how much those territories where included in a network of relations with the Balkan coast as well with the oversea. Those settlements were scattered along the main routes, mostly defined by rivers dotted by harbors, at the very beginning of transbalkan axes, privileged places for cultural and economical encounters, into the cosmopolite and bi-confessional Albanian society.