Basilica di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi
The church, usually only called Santa Maria dei Servi , was built by the mendicant order of the Servites from the 13th to the 16th century in the Tuscan city of Siena .
location
The basilica is located within the city walls of Siena in Piazza Manzoni . This is located in the third third of the city Terzo di San Martino in the Contrada Valdimontone (Aries). The church also includes the convent , which was headed by the Servites , and the Oratorio della Santissima Trinità from 1380 .
History and structure
The basilica emerged from the Chiesa di San Clemente , which was built around 1234 by the Order of the Servites. Brick deliveries from the city of Siena (approx. 50,000) are documented from 1362 to support the expansion of the church. The seams on the facade show that the building was later widened and raised. From 1473 to 1528 the transept was vaulted and the basilica nave was built in its current form with its Ionic columns and the barrel-vaulted chapel niches accompanying the side aisles in the style of the Renaissance. In contrast to the two older, large mendicant churches in Siena, which today also have the ecclesiastical rank of a basilica minor , the designation "basilica" in S. Maria dei Servi can certainly be related to the building type .
The consecration of the church took place on May 18, 1533, but it was not completed until 1537. The church facade remained unfinished. From 1890 to 1901 the church was restored by Giuseppe Partini and Agenore Socini. In 1908 it was elevated to a minor basilica . The campanile dates from the 13th or 14th century and was completely restored in 1926. The basilica belongs to the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino . The relics of Francesco Patrizi da Siena (1266–1328) and Gioacchino da Siena (around 1258–1305) are in the church.
Works in the interior (selection)
- Alessandro Casolani : Adorazione dei pastori , created around 1581
- Coppo di Marcovaldo : Madonna del Bordone , inscription dated 1261, best known and only signed work by the Florentine painter. Even if the faces on this over 2 m high painting were painted over a few decades later, the panel painting as a very early full-length representation of the Madonna remains a key work for the further development of art.
- Bernardino Fungai : Incoronazione della Vergine e Santi
- Giovanni di Paolo : Madonna della Misericordia , created in 1431
- Biagio di Goro Ghezzi : Sant'Agnese (wall painting)
- Rutilio Manetti : Natività di Maria , created 1625, Martirio di San Lorenzo , 1602
- Matteo di Giovanni : Strage degli Innocenti , written in 1491
- Lippo Memmi : Madonna del Popolo , created in 1325
- Astolfo Petrazzi : La Madonna e la peste di Siena
- Lorenzo Rustici : Angeli
- Ventura Salimbeni : frescoes of the oratory, created between 1595 and 1601
- Sano di Pietro : Madonna col Bambino e Santi
- Segna di Bonaventura : Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, 85 × 52 cm, made in 1319)
- Taddeo di Bartolo : Natività di Maria , created in 1404
- Ugolino di Nerio : Cucifix (Croce dipinto, German painted cross, 401 x 244.5 cm, restored in 2003)
- Raffaello Vanni : Scena di Clodoveo
- Francesco Vanni : Annunciazione , created around 1585
organ
The organ was built in 1925 by the Mascioni organ building company. The instrument is behind the main altar. It has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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literature
- Mauro Civai, Enrico Toti: The Gothic Dream. Edizioni Alsaba, Siena 1997, ISBN 88-85331-43-2
- Piero Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada . Edizioni Bonechi, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1
- Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , pp. 554 f.
Web links
- La Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi on viaesiena.it (ital.)
- List of works (selection) in the Basilica di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi at the Fondazione Zeri of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to gcatholic.org
- ^ Website Santi e Beati on Francesco Patrizi da Siena , accessed on November 29, 2013 (Italian)
- ^ Franco Andrea Dal Pino: GIOACCHINO da Siena. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 55 (2001, Italian)
- ↑ Klaus Zimmermanns: Toscana , Cologne 2011, p. 323.
- ↑ Cristina Ranucci: GHEZZI, Biagio . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 53, accessed on July 12, 2014 (Italian)
- ↑ Restauri completati - Croce dipinta, 1330 approx . Associazione per il Restauro del Patrimonio Artistico Italiano , accessed June 3, 2019 (Italian).
Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 16.6 ″ E