Erodierte mittelalterliche Schnitzerei von zwei Pfauen, die trinken. Am Castello di Trani, an der Adriaküste bei Trani in Apulien (Apulien), Italien. In der christlichen Kunst symbolisiert ein Paar Pfauen, das trinkend ist, Auferstehung und Glauben an das ewige Leben durch die Eucharistie.
4101 x 2724 px | 34,7 x 23,1 cm | 13,7 x 9,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. August 2008
Ort:
Castle, Castello di Trani, Puglia, Apulia, Italy
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Trani, Province of Barletta, Puglia (Apulia), Italy: two peacocks drinking, the Castle (Castello di Trani), built 1233 - 1249 by Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Duke of Swabia, Frederick II (1194 - 1250). Early Christians believed that peacock flesh - like peacock feathers - did not decay after death and they therefore saw the birds as symbols of the Resurrection and of immortality. Peacocks and peacock feathers were painted on walls in Christian catacombs and peacocks often featured in early paintings of the Annunciation and Nativity of Christ. Pairs of peacocks were sometimes also depicted as guardians of the gates of Heaven. The Castello di Trani was modelled on Crusader castles of the Holy Land, which in turn were modelled on Roman castra or forts, with a quadrangular base, reinforced by four square towers. It was built by Frederick II as part of a defensive system to protect his Kingdom of Sicily and modified in the 1500s, with the advent of firearms, by Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In the 1800s it became a prison. Trani, a town with a small harbour and important centre of the wine trade, is located on the Adriatic coast in south east Italy. It was founded by the Romans and later dominated by the Byzantine Empire and Lombards. It flourished under the Normans and Swabian (Hohenstaufen) kings of Sicily as a result of trade with the Middle East. The medieval part of the town includes the castle, built 1233 - 1249 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the 1100s Ognissanti Church of the Knights Templar, and the Romanesque-Apulian Cathedral, begun in1094 and dedicated to saint Peregrinus (Nicola Pellegrino), a young Greek pilgrim who died at Trani. D0706.A8445
