LIVING STONES
Romanesque Europe is Clothed in Beauty

Curated by Tancredi Bella, Marco Rossi, Alessandro Rovetta

With the collaboration of Martino Astolfi, Guido Cariboni, Micol Forti, Lorenzo Margiotta, Stefano Margutti, Martina Saltamacchia, and a group of students from the Faculty of Humanities at the Università Cattolica di Milano.

The exhibition aims to highlight the renewal and constructive passion reflected in the widespread diffusion of Romanesque architecture and art starting from the year 1000, when all of Europe “was covered with a white mantle of churches” (R. Glaber).
The ideal of novelty and beauty embodied in the construction of the Romanesque church is a profound image of the building up of the Christian community through “living stones,” as attested by numerous medieval works and texts.