Gli stucchi di Terreti nel contesto

A set of medieval stucco fragments was discovered in 1915, while tearing down the former monastic church of S. Maria di Terreti, in the outskirts of Reggio Calabria. At closer scrutiny, the fragments proved to belong to a variety of original elements such as rectangular slabs, cornices and a few other, yet debatable, pieces. Scholars has so far focused on decorative patterns as well as on stucco craftsmanship, thus mostly uninterested in the pieces’ early arrangement within the church space. Instead, this paper aims at discussing measures and material features of extant fragments against the background of the church original layout, so as to prove that the pieces were most likely part of a sanctuary barrier, and to provide hypotheses on its articulation

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