Villa Magna

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  • Medieval ashlar arched block
  • Cream limestone
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  • Concave curve in bottom edge, beginning 17.5 cm from left side. Appears to be the spring point for a shallow arch. Rectangular recess cut into the top surface measure 3 x 7 cm and 6 cm deep.
  • The form of the cloister with its double apertures and colonnettes, was common from the mid-twelfth through the thirteenth century. The double apertures resemble the cloister of nearby Casamari, which was built perhaps in the twelfth century (Farina and Fornari 1978, 62) and the elegant cloister of Valvisciolo, built for the Cistercian community there in the thirteenth century (Cristino 2002). The double rows of flat voussoirs forming the arches recall those at the cloister of S. Scholastica (Subiaco), inscribed by their carver, the mason Jacopus Romanus of the Cosmati family ca 1220 and also the fragments reconstructed at Valvisciolo (Claussen 1987, 77–80). The profile of the cornice strongly resembles a portal from Valvisciolo, drawn by G. Cristino in 1999, suggesting that they might have been made near the same time.
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    • Megan McNamee