A trip in Italy, Sept.–Oct. 2021
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
Today and over the following days, I invite you to take a closer look at a very simple and unadorned, yet beautiful and quite unusual abbey church in the Abruzzo region: San Pietro ad Oratorium.
Like our previous church of Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta, this one is also located in a quiet valley, that of river Tirino.
Built mostly during the 700s and fully completed in the 1100s, this church was part of a Benedictine abbey. It is designed on a basilica-type plan with three naves and three semi-circular apse.
Two splendid examples of the very scarce but remarkable decoration of the nave. Note in particular the care and subtleness with which the ordinary stones used for the pillars have been adorned...
A trip in Italy, Sept.–Oct. 2021
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
Today and over the following days, I invite you to take a closer look at a very simple and unadorned, yet beautiful and quite unusual abbey church in the Abruzzo region: San Pietro ad Oratorium.
Like our previous church of Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta, this one is also located in a quiet valley, that of river Tirino.
Built mostly during the 700s and fully completed in the 1100s, this church was part of a Benedictine abbey. It is designed on a basilica-type plan with three naves and three semi-circular apse.
Two splendid examples of the very scarce but remarkable decoration of the nave. Note in particular the care and subtleness with which the ordinary stones used for the pillars have been adorned...