Zuzana Urbanová: Classical rhetoric in barbaric architecture? Representations of power in Cividale del Friuli

Since the middle of the 19th century, dating the so-called Tempietto Longobardo in Cividale del Friuli has been a hot topic among local and international scholars. A problem on which these experts have not agreed in the slightest. However, among the academic majority, there was a clear opinion: the building was given the appellation "Longobardo" or "Longobard" by mistake, and its architecture, let alone its sophisticated decoration, certainly had nothing to do with this "barbarian ethnic group". Was this really the case?

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