La produzione scultorea a Napoli tra IX e XI secolo. Riflessioni storiografiche e materiali di studio

Abstract

In this article the first section is focused on the main phases of the historiographical debate of the XIX and XX Century about the early medieval sculpture in Naples, in order to understand what methods have been adopted by monographs and essays. Therefore I’ll consider again some casestudies, generally dated between IX and X Century. Among the works that twentieth-century historiography has included in this chronology, there are some cases already known, but infrequently investigated in relation to their contexts and which could require a new study in order to provide new reconstructions: two from the church of S. Maria a Piazza, and then two fragments of a relief, reused as a coat of arms in XVI Century in S. Maria in Mater Domini. The analysis of these artifacts will try to define the formal and functional peculiarities, and give, finally, some hypothesis on their origin and iconography.