Geneviève Moracchini-Mazel e l’architettura romanica in Corsica: appunti per un riesame = Genevieve Moracchini-Mazel and Romanesque architecture in Corsica: notes for a reexamination

Usai, Nicoletta

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2022-01-01

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Abstract

Geneviève Moracchini-Mazel (1926-2014) was the scholar who, starting from the early 1950s, examined and systematized the medieval architectural heritage of Corsica into an organic whole. Two of his monumental studies, both published in 1967 and dedicated respectively to early Christian and Romanesque monuments, have constituted for decades, until the most recent rereadings, foundational texts for the study of the architectural heritage of Corsica. An intellectual figure poised between the archaeological approach to the contexts and the historical-artistic reading of the elevations, Geneviève Moracchini-Mazel conducted her research by applying a systematic methodology of examining the sites combined with the examination of the often scant written documentation. In this intervention we intend to present the figure of the scholar, retracing the methods of investigation and the critical reflections underlying the two-volume work Les Eglises romane de Corse, in light of the new approaches that current research methodologies suggest.