Remploi et mise en scène du remploi. L’exemple de la crypte d’Anzy-le-Duc (Bourgogne, XI^e-XII^e)

All over the time, re-using ancient elements is customary, in every kind of art: literature, goldsmith’s trade, manuscripts, architecture. For this last one, re-use can be considered as a relic put in a new building, to show continuity with the first construction and the subsequent ones. It can also be a quotation, as a proof that the sponsor, the believer and the visitor share the same culture and are able to understand the meaning of the re-use. In art history, the re-use caught the attention in itself, as an object: identification of the re-used piece, research on its origin, situation in the history of the building and the institution. But re-use can also be staged, as a theatrical character. The existing links between the re-used piece and the building must be precisely examined: situation of the re-use in masonry, its position in the organization of the ecclesial space, its entire or partial visibility. In the crypt of the martinian prioral of Anzy-le-Duc (France), antic supports are awkwardly re-used to inscribe themselves in a general staging, in order to give the impression of a building older than it really is, as if it was the vestige of the first church from the X^th century.