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City Gate of Capua

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While it survived, the gate was famous, and is often thought to have been influential on other constructions and sculptures of the period, especially in respect of the large statue of the seated emperor himself, which mostly survives in different museums.
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from the north. Frederick II had a new gate built on the north side of the Volturno before the bridge. The gate was built to greet travellers coming from the
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in a façade between two large towers. The façade was programmatically decorated with sculptures to glorify the emperor, including one of Frederick himself.
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in Capua, but the sculpture of Frederick was severely damaged when
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The bases of the two towers and the reconstructed Roman bridge
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in Berlin, and most of the body in the Museo Campano.
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fortified gate constructed between 1234 and 1239 at
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Index


Italian
monumental
Capua
Naples
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo
viceroy of Naples
Museo Campano
French troops marched south
Parthenopean Republic
Bode Museum

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Romanesque arch
Casilinum
Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Roman bridge
Volturno
Papal States

Museo Campano




D'Onofrio 2005


Bredekamp 2021

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