Charlemagne and Rome: the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I

查理曼大帝与罗马：教皇哈德良一世的墓志铭

• 批准号: AH/E003796/1
• 负责人: Joanna Story
• 金额: $ 3.59万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE003796%2F1
• 关键词: Charlemagne; Rome; Epitaph; Pope; Hadrian

Hadrian's Epitaph is a masterpiece of the Carolingian Renaissance that survives today high up in the portico of the church of St. Peter in the Vatican, Rome. It was commissioned by Charlemagne to commemorate Pope Hadrian who died at Christmas 795, and embodies the Carolingian mastery of classical epigraphic and poetic forms as well as the aesthetic innovations of the Carolingian Renaissance. Nothing else like it survives from the age of Charlemagne, but because of its inaccessible location it has never received the modern analysis that it so clearly merits. Because of its association with Charlemagne and its technical brilliance, the Epitaph was widely discussed by later medieval visitors to Rome and humanist scholars; the text of the inscription was copied many times before the Reformation and was included in several medieval pilgrim itineraries of Rome. Its fame was such that it is one of very few monuments to have been preserved from the old, fourth-century Constantinian basilica and re-displayed in Bramante's and Michelangelo's new sixteenth-century church.Pope Hadrian's Epitaph is thus an artefact of major cultural and art-historical significance that is worthy of detailed study in its own right. This project, however, proposes a study of the Epitaph in a much broader socio-political context, in which the archaeological examination of the object and its context of manufacture provide the evidence for a re-evaluation of the cultural and political dynamics of Francia in the late eighth century. The Epitaph is a lens through which the vibrancy of Charlemagne's court culture and its connections to Italy, past and present, can be brought into focus. The book that results will argue that the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian should be seen as a material expression of Charlemagne's imperial ambitions, and that it can be reinterpreted as a source for understanding his coronation as Emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800.

哈德良的墓志铭是罗马文艺复兴时期的一件杰作，至今仍保存在罗马梵蒂冈圣彼得教堂的门廊上。它是由查理曼大帝委托制作的，以纪念在795年圣诞节去世的教皇哈德良，体现了君士坦丁堡对古典金石和诗歌形式的掌握，以及君士坦丁堡文艺复兴时期的美学创新。从查理曼大帝时代起，就没有其他地方像它一样幸存下来，但由于它的地理位置难以接近，它从来没有得到过现代的分析，而这显然是值得的。由于它与查理曼大帝的联系及其技术上的辉煌，墓志铭被后来的中世纪罗马游客和人文主义学者广泛讨论;铭文的文本在宗教改革之前被复制了很多次，并被包括在罗马的几个中世纪朝圣者行程中。它的名气如此之大，以至于它是极少数从四世纪的君士坦丁大教堂中保存下来，并在布拉曼特和米开朗琪罗的十六世纪新教堂中重新展示的纪念碑之一。因此，教皇哈德良的墓志铭是一件具有重大文化和艺术历史意义的文物，值得详细研究。然而，该项目提出了一个更广泛的社会政治背景下的墓志铭的研究，其中该对象及其制造环境的考古检查提供了证据，重新评估的文化和政治动态的法兰克在世纪后期。墓志铭是一个透镜，通过它可以聚焦查理曼宫廷文化的活力及其与意大利过去和现在的联系。这本书的结果将认为，教皇哈德良的墓志铭应该被视为查理曼帝国野心的物质表达，它可以被重新解释为理解他在800年圣诞节在罗马加冕为皇帝的来源。