"O Maria, la tua Siena difendi": the Porta della Riconoscenza of Siena Cathedral

• Autores: Gerald Parsons
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2001, págs. 153-176
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Vico Consorti's impressive bronze door (“Porta della Riconoscenza”) in Siena Cathedral, Italy, is discussed. Installed in 1946, the door features four detailed and elaborate representations of occasions of crisis on which the Sienese sought the protection of the Virgin. The writer examines the origins of the commission for the door within the complex history of Siena in 1943 and 1944; analyzes the door itself and its relationship to the history of Sienese devotion to the Virgin, and to the concerns of the donor; and relates the history and importance of the door to the notion of a distinctive Sienese “civil religion” that celebrates, nurtures, and sustains the Sienese people.