Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta
Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta is a remote, important Romanesque church in the Italian Abruzzo near the town of Magliano de 'Marsi (district Rosciolo) in the province of L'Aquila .
history
The church originally belonged to a Benedictine monastery . Baumeister was a "Master Nicolaus". The main part of the church dates from the 11th century, the porch is apparently younger. It is far outside the city at the end of the valley.
Pope Benedict XVI visited the church together with his brother Georg Ratzinger on the occasion of a private excursion on August 11, 2011 and prayed Vespers there in the evening .
inner space
The church offers an unusual and richly furnished interior. Some architectural uncertainties are striking, the nave was shortened from originally seven to six bays . Then there is an extension in the right aisle that does not align with the yokes of the central nave. The window arrangement is not homogeneously adapted to the room .
The interiors offer a rich endowment of hard plastic . The capitals take up ancient forms of jewelry such as egg sticks and tooth cuts as well as they copy figurative models or vary some themes several times. The designs are sometimes primitive archaic , sometimes at the end of a pillar simply put together from several stones that do not belong together. Ancient shafts were connected to medieval remains in the columns . The ground has not been straightened. In the rearmost part there is a descent to a small underground grotto with a well .
There is a unique nesting of parts of the room from different eras .
Pulpit with two lecterns
The sculpture of the pulpit has different degrees of differentiation than that of the capitals. The staircase and pulpit walls are decorated with relief panels that show scenes from the lives of Jonas and David . According to the inscription, it was made in 1150 by the masters Roberto di Ruggero and Nicodemo da Guardiagrele .
Choir screen
The choir screen was also created around 1150. The original pulpit and choir screen were destroyed after an earthquake and were not completely reassembled. During the restoration in the 13th century, the four supporting columns were reconstructed and the old plate of the base was reassembled as well as the rare carved wood architrave . The remaining parts are later ingredients.
literature
- Roger Willemsen: The Abruzzo. The mountains in the heart of Italy. Art, culture and history. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1990. ISBN 3-7701-2256-9
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Coordinates: 42 ° 8 ′ 14.2 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 9.9" E