Il riuso dell`antico nell`architettura religiosa ad agrigento: Studio ed analisi dei restauri della chiesa di santa maria dei greci

Zusammenfassung

The present doctoral study has as its main objective the study of the restorations that have affected the church of Santa Maria dei Greci, located on the top of the Girgenti hill, identified today with the highest part of the historic center of Agrigento. This particular monumental building embodies a very articulated and complex history, due to the coexistence of two superimposed architectural realities, consisting of a temple dating back to the Doric period and a small church from the Byzantine-Norman period. This aspect flows into a very broad theme, which has always stimulated the interests of scholars of the art world, who, precisely in the theme of the transformation of the Templar buildings of the Greek and Roman age into churches of Christian worship, have recognized an important element for the understanding of the historical-architectural evolution of many monuments in the Western world. My research, therefore, aims to investigate the relationship between architecture and archeology, in order to understand how the two buildings - typically different - are integrated with each other. Ultimately, archeology can be considered "an architecture of the past", designed to convey the passage of time through its historical stratifications. Over the centuries, overwriting the traces of history with new buildings was a very common practice, such as to allow the survival of the factories themselves, through a process of new functionalization. There are numerous examples of transformations undergone by pagan temples to be used as seats for Christian worship; however - having to limit the field of research - apart from two brief references to the Parthenon in Athens and the Pantheon in Rome, considered the most striking examples, I thought it appropriate to examine some buildings present in the Sicilian territory first and...