Maria Fabricius Hansen

A particularly robust approach to Rome's antique past was taken in the Middle Ages, spanning from the Late Antiquity in the fourth century, until roughly the thirteenth century AD. The Spolia Churches of Rome looks at how the church-builders treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated material and examines the cultural, economic and political structure of the church and how this influenced the building's design. It is this trend of putting old buildings to new uses which presents an array of different forms of architecture and design within modern day Rome. This book is both an introduction to the spolia churches of medieval Rome, and a guide to eleven selected churches.

Recycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages

The Spolia Churches of Rome

Robert Storr

Richard Shiff

Ulrich Wilmes

Poul Erik Tøjner

Per Kirkeby

Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark)

Edited by Michael Juul Holm. Text by Richard Shiff, Robert Storr, Maria Fabriciu Hansen, Poul Erik T0jner, Ulrich Wilmes.

Per Kirkeby, Louisiana, 2008

Maria Fabricius Hansen

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