Collegiata (Catania)

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Coordinates: 37 ° 30 ′ 15 ″  N , 15 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E

Late baroque facade by the Polish architect Stefano Ittar (1768).

The church of S. Maria dell'Elemosina on the Via Etnea in Catania , called Collegiata , is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Late Baroque Cities of Val di Noto .

On the site of a temple of Proserpine , a chapel is said to have been built in the first centuries of Christianity, which was dedicated to Our Lady of Alms . King Martin I raised this to the regia cappella in 1396, giving it the same rank as the Cappella Palatina in Palermo . With the approval of Pope Eugen IV , a collegiate foundation was incorporated in 1446 . Hence the name Collegiata (collegiate church).

After Catania was destroyed in 1693 by the earthquake in Val di Noto (administrative unit in south-east Sicily), the church was rebuilt. The design is attributed to the Jesuit Angelo Italia (1628–1701), the execution to Antonio Amato. The richly furnished church has the plan of a Latin cross . The three-storey façade made of ivory-colored lime and olive-colored sandstone (1768), facing the Via Etnea and concave in the middle, is a major work by the Polish architect Stefano Ittar (1724–1790), who trained in Rome and was married to a Catanian . The dome fresco is by Giuseppe Sciuti (1835–1911). 1946 received the Collegiata from Pius XII. the title Basilica minor .

literature

  • Vito Messina: Monografia della Regia insigne parrochiale chiesa Collegiata di Catania. Giacomo Pastore, Catania 1898.
  • Alfonso Toscano Deodati: La riedificazione della chiesa di S. Maria dell'Elemosina (Collegiata) in Catania, dopo il terremoto del 1693. In: Archivio storico per la Sicilia orientale (Catania), 53/1957, pp. 109-141.
  • Giuseppina Cotroneo Catania: Il primo Barocco siciliano del Gesuita Angelo Italia. In Maria Luisa Madonna, Lucia Trigilia (ed.): Barocco mediterraneo: Sicilia, Lecce, Sardegna, Spagna, Libreria dello Stato, Roma 1992, pp. 77-101.
  • Gaetano Palumbo: La basilica collegiata S. Maria dell'Elemosina in Catania. Signorello, Catania 1994.
  • Rosario Alaimo: The facade of the Collegiata Church of Catania (Sicily): forms and causes of deterioration. In: Science and technology for cultural heritage (Pisa / Roma), 4/1995, 1, pp. 39-49.

Web link

Commons : Collegiata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ^ Rocco Pirri: Sicilia Sacra. Palermo 1733 (reprint 1987), sheet 1352 f.