
handle: 10261/28998
[EN]The immense cultural heritage of ClassicAntiquity has survived throughout centuries, with the medieval period logically being the first means to channel and spread this vast culture. The Christian sphere was one of the most important areas to conserve ancient pagans practices and celebrations and images associated to them. This fact can be observed in a variety of formal and iconographic assimilations codified from the most early stages of a religion which, paradoxically, had set its mind on eradicating any sign of paganism as best it could. Ironically, the altar of Christ was the best support where this pagan assimilation could be found, to the extent that the ancient aras were being systematically reused as Christian altars.
[ES]El acervo cultural de la Antigüedad Clásica ha perdurado en el tiempo, siendo el periodo medieval su primer canalizador y difusor. El de lo cristiano fue uno de los principales ámbitos de conservación de las antiguas costumbres y celebraciones paganas. Este hecho puede observarse en multitud de asimilaciones formales e iconográficas tempranamente codificadas por una religión que paradójicamente estaba decidida a acabar con cualquier signo de paganismo.Ya en los primeros siglos, el altar cristiano será uno de los soportes donde mejor puede encontrarse esa asimilación pagana: las antiguas aras romanas son reutilizadas sistemáticamente como altares cristianos; y si no su diseño es el imitado.
21 páginas, 12 figuras. Comunicación presentada en el Congreso Internacional Imagines: La Antigüedad en las Artes Escénicas y Visuales (Imagines: The Reception of Antiquity in Performing and Visual Arts), celebrado en Logroño en 22-24 de Octubre de 2007.
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Pervivencias formales, Christian altars, Altares cristianos, Iconography, Aras paganas, Pervivencias iconográficas, Roman aras, Continuity
Pervivencias formales, Christian altars, Altares cristianos, Iconography, Aras paganas, Pervivencias iconográficas, Roman aras, Continuity
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