Carmine Maggiore (Palermo)

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The maiolica dome of the Chiesa del Carmine Maggiore in Palermo

The Carmine Maggiore , actually Maria Santissima del Carmelo , is a Baroque church in Palermo .

description

As early as the 13th century, a church was built on this site by the Carmelites, which was renovated from 1627 by the architect Mariano Smiriglio .

The facade is structured by pilasters , amphorae crown the corners of the building. The sculpture “Madonna and Child” from the 18th century is placed in a round arch niche above the portal. The pendentive dome covered with multicolored majolica was designed by Angelo Italia around 1700 . The outside of the drum is decorated with garlands, putti and atlases.

The interior of the three-nave church houses the wooden sculpture “Madonna del Carmine”, a wooden crucifix and the statue of St. Dionysius in the transept. Between 1683 and 1684 Giuseppe and Giacomo Serpotta created the altars for the transept chapels and decorated them with stucco. The twisted columns, which were probably created based on the model of Bernini's canopy in St. Peter's Basilica and were provided with figurative scenes from the life of Mary and the Passion of Christ, which wind upwards in the manner of the Trajan column from Rome, are striking. The stucco decoration in the Cappella Caterina d'Alessandria is attributed to Giacomo Serpotta, the reliefs on the inner facade by Giuseppe Serpotta have not survived.

Furnishing

  • Pietro Novelli : panel “Sant Andrea Corsini”
  • Tommaso de Vigilia panel painting “Madonna del Carmelo”
  • Gioacchino Mercurio: panel painting “Birth of Christ”
  • Giuseppe and Giacomo Serpotta: Scenes from the life of Mary and “Passion of Christ”
  • Giacomo Serpotta: Decoration of the cappella di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria

literature

  • Giuseppe Bellafiore: Palermo. Guide to the city and the surrounding area. Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Novara 1959.
  • Adriana Chirco: Palermo la città ritrovata. Flaccovio, Palermo 1999, ISBN 88-7758-469-6 .
  • Maria Giuffrè: Baroque Sicily. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-264-2 , pp. 46, 103, 165-166, 171-172.

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Coordinates: 38 ° 6 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 41 ″  E