Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico

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The Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico is a prayer house of the Dominican Order in Palermo on Sicily ..

The Compagnia della Madonna del Rosario installed the oratorio in 1574 in a narrow corridor of the Dominican monastery complex . After surviving the plague epidemic in 1624, the brotherhood commissioned the painting "Madonna del Rosario with Saints Dominic , Catherine of Siena , Vincent Ferrer , Olivia , Ninfa , Agathe , Christina and Rosalia " from Anthony van Dyck , which has been the main altar since 1628 decorates.

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Other paintings by important artists are worth mentioning, such as a work by Luca Giordano , several pictures, including “Christ on the Torture Pillar” by Matthias Stomer , “Resurrection” by Orazio Ferraro, “Visitation” (1727) by Guglielmo Borreman's “Twelve Year Old Jesus in the Temple “,“ Whitsun miracle ”and a ceiling fresco“ Coronation of the Virgin ”(1630) by Pietro Novelli . From 1714 to 1717 Giacomo Serpotta added elaborate stucco work and high-relief figurative reliefs, including scenes from the Apocalypse , the Old Testament and depictions of the legend of Mary with the Rosary, as well as illusionistic groups of figures in the dome, making the oratorio a masterpiece of the Let Italian become Rococo .

literature

  • Adriana Chirco: Palermo la città ritrovata. Flaccovio, Palermo 2002, ISBN 88-7758-469-6 .
  • Maria Giuffrè: Baroque Sicily. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-264-2 , p. 224.
  • Pierfrancesco Palazzotto: Palermo. Guida agli oratori. Confraternite, compagnie e congregazioni dal XVI al XIX secolo . Kalós, Palermo 2004, ISBN 88-89224-07-X .

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Coordinates: 38 ° 7 '10.5 "  N , 13 ° 21' 50.2"  E