San Nicola (Ottana)
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San Nicola in Ottana in Sardinia is a former cathedral. Ottana was the seat of a bishopric until 1503. San Nicola was built from black trachyte on the ruins of a Byzantine church in the first half of the 12th century .
San Nicola is the only single-nave cathedral in Sardinia. The floor plan has the shape of a cross of St Anthony or Tau and is similar to that of Santa Sarbana in Silanus or San Giovanni di Sinis . While barrel vaults form the ceiling in the low transept, the beam ceiling in the nave has carved wooden consoles.
The Pisan façade, influenced by the local cathedral and Santa Maria del Regno , with the step rhombuses under the blind arches, has a twin window in the middle. The side walls with the elegant blind arcades were later imitated in the nearby Chiesa San Pietro di Zuri. Presumably because the building collapsed before 1160, only the facade and the front part of the south wall up to the former bell tower remained of the old building.
The precious polyptych Marianus IV hangs in the left transept . The central panel shows Franz von Assisi and Nikolaus von Myra , flanking two panels each depicting important events in their lives in eight pictures. The whole thing is ennobled by pediments . The middle one shows the bishop Silvester von Ottana and the judge Marianus IV. Von Arborea at the feet of the Madonna . On the other gable panels, saints, archangels and the Annunciation of Mary (Annunziata) are depicted. The eclectic style points to an artist who stood between the Florentines Giotto and Maso and the Sienese Martini and Lorenzetti, but retained archaic elements. He was believed to be in the vicinity of Francesco Traini, the creator of the Trionfo della Morte (death allegory) or in the circle of the Tuscan painters at the court of the Anjou in Naples (possibly Pietro Orimma).
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Coordinates: 40 ° 13 '59.7 " N , 9 ° 2' 32.4" E