LA SCULTURA ROMANICA NELL'ALTO NOVARESE: CATALOGO E CONSIDERAZIONI CRITICHE SULLE MAESTRANZE

Romanic sculpture in the Northern area of Novara: catalogue and critical considerations about the workmen PhD thesis by Silvia Muzzin The purpose of this thesis is to study the sculptural decoration in the Romanic buildings of the Northern area of Novara. The author places this decoration inside a specific production context and she focuses on the lapicide workmen that have realized it , on their displacement and their background. The text is composed by three sections. The first two want to create a catalogue of the sculptural residues that are divided according to the their contexts. Another purpose of these sections is to study these contexts in an historical and structural way and to elaborate on the knowledge of their decoration through some comparative suggestions about Romanic sculpture considered in a larger area and in the specific one. On the other hand, in the third section it is possible to find a visual confirmation about these suggestions. Moreover the last section gives some historical and geographic elements for an elaboration of the area and, in the meantime, it provides the useful instruments for a revaluation of the previous data for the knowledge of the lapicides’ workmen that have directly handled on the considered buildings.