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 tomorrow, we will visit to so-called “co-cathedral” church of Corfinio in Abruzzo. Dedicated to San Pelino, it was begun in 1081 by its most interesting part, the pase, which was finished by 1085.
The nave and the rest of the cathedral were built between 1104 and 1124, with the magnificent ambone (elevated pulpit), the very reason of our presence here, coming into being at the same period.
The nave is very simple and almost totally unadorned, which is quite rare for a cathedral (even a mere co- one!), but there are a couple of splendid pieces inside. The façade was severely damaged during one of the many earthquakes that plagued the Abruzzo over the centuries, and baroque style unfortunately struck. That part of the church is therefore utterly uninteresting, and I will not show it here.
The nave.
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 tomorrow, we will visit to so-called “co-cathedral” church of Corfinio in Abruzzo. Dedicated to San Pelino, it was begun in 1081 by its most interesting part, the pase, which was finished by 1085.
The nave and the rest of the cathedral were built between 1104 and 1124, with the magnificent ambone (elevated pulpit), the very reason of our presence here, coming into being at the same period.
The nave is very simple and almost totally unadorned, which is quite rare for a cathedral (even a mere co- one!), but there are a couple of splendid pieces inside. The façade was severely damaged during one of the many earthquakes that plagued the Abruzzo over the centuries, and baroque style unfortunately struck. That part of the church is therefore utterly uninteresting, and I will not show it here.
The nave.