A new book on the theme of Angevin Art in Southern Italy has just been published.
In San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, Marcello Mignozzi reconstructs the history of the rupestrian church of Saint Michael in Monte Laureto in Putignano (Apulia), Italy, investigating its historiographical, historical, and artistic aspects. The cross analysis of archival and artistic data allows the author to understand the value of an almost forgotten Medieval Sanctuary. The magnificent fourteenth-century fresco with the Crucifixion, made by two artists from Apulia influenced by Neapolitan art, is finally included in the pictorial context of the Angevin region. In this regard a lot of space is dedicated not only to examine the theme of the Crucifixion in the painting of the entire region, but also to frescoes, many of them unpublished, in Polignano, Mola di Bari, Monopoli, Noci, Conversano, Rutigliano, Capurso, Triggiano. Part of the work is then dedicated to the events of the rock church in the Modern Age, to the sculptures of Stefano da Putignano, and to the Contemporary Age. Finally, the study of road networks during the Middle Ages allows the reconstruction of the complex system of pilgrimages, but also of political and artistic relations between Putignano and the Angevin Principality of Taranto.
For more information on this publication, see https://www.ibs.it/san-michele-in-monte-laureto-libro-marcello-mignozzi/e/9788899224301.