Tradizione cultuale e reliquiaria nell'architettura bresciana

The theme of the burial and its link to the evangelical tradition and to the Christian cult of relics leads to significant transformations of obituary practice in the early Middle Ages and to an ever-closer link between cemetery areas and relic memory, for which the burial within sacred spaces and next to the "holy bodies" it is considered a viaticum for eternal salvation. In the case of Brescia, the example of the funeral rituals and the cult of the Cross, attested in the women's abbey of San Salvatore - Santa Giulia acts as a model for the revival of the episcopal image in full Gregorian age through the renewal of the great round cathedral of Santa Maria (today the old Cathedral) and the erection of the tower of imperial matrix on the façade, then collapsed in 1708.