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GENOVA. SANTA MARIA DI CASTELLO. EDIZ. INGLESE
di GILARDI COSTANTINO; BADANO SARA
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- Titolo: GENOVA. SANTA MARIA DI CASTELLO. EDIZ. INGLESE
- Autore: GILARDI COSTANTINO; BADANO SARA
- Editore: SAGEP
- Collana: SAGEP ARTE
- Anno: 2021
- ISBN: 9788863738025
- Pagine: 80
- Volumi: 1
Classificazione DEWEY
Classificazione CEE
<DescrizioneEstesa>Santa Maria di Castello is one of the most fascinating churches in Genoa, in the oldest heart of city. The Romanesque basilica, with the adjoining convent and museum, it constitutes a monumental complex of extraordinary importance. In addition to suggestion of Romanesque architecture and priceless masterpieces of art from all eras, to make unique this sacred site is the rising in the place of the first settlement of the city, just above the natural shelter of the coast of the ancient port. The façade of the church and the bell tower testify to the Romanesque architecture, which it assumes in Genoa the language brought by the Antelamic masters, builders and stone carvers from Lombardy. One of the characteristic signs of their architecture is the reuse of materials recovered from ruins of Roman architecture. It is the case of the marble frame with leaves and griffins, masterfully recontextualized as the lintel of the entrance portal or the ten columns and fifteen capitals of the interior, which today we see brightly from the eighteenth century, but which retains the layout with three naves of the Romanesque basilica...