The Cosmatesque school began in XII century, and was chiefly active in Rome during the Romanesque period. The Cosmati masters’ work featured square or rectangular decorated panels set off by ribbons of mosaic wrapped around porphyry disks to produce geometric designs. Cosmati work was applied most extensively for the decoration of church floors, but was also used to architectural surfaces and to church furniture. The name derives from the Cosmati, the leading family workshop of marble craftsmen in Rome who created such geometrical decorations. The first examples of Cosmatesque pavements were that of the basilica of Montecassino in XI century. Currently it is covered by another marble inlay floor, but it is drawn in some engraved from XVIII century.
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Memory as Intangible Heritage: WW2 Cemeteries in Cassino and Montecassino
Arturo Gallozzi (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), Marcello Zordan (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), and Michela Cigola (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6936-7.ch006
Abstract
This chapter describes the documentation and valorization of a special architectural heritage: the WW2 Cemeteries in Cassino & Montecassino territory. This is for the purpose of preserving and transmitting the memories of different people. Even today, these cemeteries are maintained by Polish, English, German, French and Italian governments and visited by many people of various nationalities. Our research is orientated to not only celebrate the sacrifice and identity of the soldiers who lost their lives in the war events, but also as a call for the reconciliation of peoples and the construction of a culture of peace. The cemeteries are studied by an architectonical point of view. Design aspects and aspects concerning the representation of projects are highlighted based on the documents found.