Baida Monastery

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Baida Monastery
Facade of the monastery church
Facade of the monastery church
location ItalyItaly Italy
Region of Sicily
Metropolitan City of Palermo
Coordinates: 38 ° 6 '52 "  N , 13 ° 17' 47"  E Coordinates: 38 ° 6 '52 "  N , 13 ° 17' 47"  E
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1385

The Baida Monastery (Santa Maria degli Angeli, now San Giovanni Battista) is a former Cistercian or Benedictine monastery in Sicily , Italy . It is located on the western outskirts of Palermo in the metropolitan city ​​of the same name , at the western end of Via al Convento di Baida, at a panoramic height.

history

The monastery, a late foundation of the order, was donated by Manfredo Chiaramonte after Kröning in 1385 . In 1596 it passed to the Franciscan Minorites . The retreat house Oasi di Baida of the Archdiocese of Palermo is housed in part of the monastery complex. The east wing and church are used by the Franciscans.

Plant and buildings

View of the monastery from the southeast
Capital in the east wing of the cloister

The church is a single-nave hall with Gothic vaults and a square choir that has just closed. Parts of the monastery and the east and south wings of the cloister have also been preserved. Its eastern part has ribbed vaults. The entrance wall to the former chapter house is richly structured by pointed arcades on double columns made of light marble, which are repetitions of the Monreale cloister . The double capitals show figurative representations.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Becking and www.cistercensi.info refer to the monastery as a Cistercian convent, while W. Kröning refers to E. Caracciolo. La Chiesa e il convento die Baida, in Archivio Storico Siciliano, ns 2/3, 1936/37, pp. 109–146, speaks of a late Cistercian founding; on the site of today's minority monastery - Convento S. Giovanni Battista ( Memento of 10 May 2006 at the Internet Archive ) - it seems as Benedictine founded by the counts of Modica in 1377 and as a filiation of the monastery of San Martino delle Scale in Monreale on

literature

  • Wolfgang Kröning: Art monuments in Italy. Sicily. Edited by Reinhardt Hootz. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-08444-6 , p. 412, m. Fig. Pp. 32–33.

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