The Solitary Basilian Spire: Architectural Geometry and Light Dynamics at the Abbey of Santa Maria di Pulsano Perched on a calcarenite ledge eight kilometres from Monte Sant’Angelo, the Abbey of Santa Maria di Pulsano is a twelfth-century hermit community whose twenty-four rock-cut cells grow from the Gargano cliff face rather […]
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The Shadow of the Basilians: Geometry, Light, and Structural Metamorphism at the Fragalà Monastery and Badiazza church In the rugged northeast of Sicily, two medieval monuments preserve the most complete evidence of Norman-Byzantine religious architecture surviving in the region. San Filippo di Fragalà Monastery, formally established under Count Roger I […]
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The Crypt of San Biagio: Byzantine Lithic Liturgies and Spatial Geometry in the Rock-Hewn Chapels of San Vito dei Normanni Within the soft calcarenite bedrock of the Brindisi hinterland, a community of italo-Byzantine monks carved a sacred world entirely underground, shaping nave walls, apse recesses, and a perimetral bench from […]
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