Lying with the Saints: Heavenly Bodies and Earthly Bodies in the Succorpo of San Gennaro

dc.contributor.advisorGill, Meredith Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorRiesenberger, Nicole Joyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-07T05:54:14Z
dc.date.available2011-07-07T05:54:14Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractIn January 1497, when the powerful Carafa family translated the relics of San Gennaro, patron saint of Naples, to the city's cathedral, a devastating plague that had ravished the region is said to have immediately ceased. The presence and miraculous power of the saint's relics give meaning to the Succorpo, Cardinal Oliviero Carafa's funerary chapel in the cathedral. This magnificent foundation serves two functions: first, it is the private funerary chapel of Carafa and select members of his family; second, it is the locus of the cult of San Gennaro himself. My thesis examines the chapel's dual functions and explores the iconography of its decoration. I present new propositions regarding the architectural plan and artistic attributions of the chapel, and I provide a close reading of the portrait sculpture of Cardinal Carafa in the Succorpo, considering how its strategic placement informs our understanding of the program and its meaning.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11740
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCarafaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGennaroen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNaplesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSuccorpoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTomben_US
dc.titleLying with the Saints: Heavenly Bodies and Earthly Bodies in the Succorpo of San Gennaroen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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