Madonna solleva il velo per mostrare Gesù bambino a due Santi. Affresco gotico della prima metà del 1400, di Giovanni di Francia (1389 - 1448), nella chiesa o cripta di Santa Maria della Scala, una «chiesa inferiore» sotto la cattedrale romanica di Trani, in Puglia (Puglia), Italia. Si ritiene che la chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala risalga alla fine del 1000 o all'inizio del 1100 e allo stesso periodo della cattedrale, la Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino o la Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta.
4288 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 agosto 2008
Ubicazione:
Church of Santa Maria della Scala, Cathedral, Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino, Basilica cattedra
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Trani, Province of Barletta, Puglia (Apulia), Italy: Gothic fresco from late 1300s or early 1400s in the ‘lower church’ of Santa Maria della Scala, which lies below the Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino and is entered via an archway under the cathedral’s porch. The church of Santa Maria della Scala is believed to date back to the end of the 1000s or early 1100s. It is divided into three naves by 22 small columns of granite or oriental marble. Many frescoes must have once decorated this church and some remain: in the left nave, not far from the entrance, is a Byzantine-style fresco of the Madonna and Child; further in is a large fresco of St Theodore on a white horse; then a bearded Saint dressed in monastic robes. At the end of the right nave stands a Gothic tomb, the Pascopepe Larnbertini tomb, surmounted by the fresco in this image which is by Giovanni di Francia (1389 - 1448): the Madonna who, lifting a veil, shows Baby Jesus in swaddling clothes to two saints on either side of her. The vault of this part of the nave is frescoed with figures of Evangelists. Trani Cathedral stands on the site of an earlier church, documented since the 800s and dedicated to the Virgin. All that remains of the earlier church is an underground chapel dedicated to the protobishop of Brindisi, San Leucio, and some pieces of mosaic flooring. A larger church, the current Romanesque-Apulian Cattedrale San Nicola Pellegrino, was begun in 1099 and dedicated to Saint Peregrinus (Nicola Pellegrino), a young Greek pilgrim who died at Trani. The cathedral crypt, cripta di San Nicola Pellegrino, intended to house the relics of San Nicola, does not correspond to the etymology of the word crypt: it is not ‘hidden’ at all, but is bright and high and has a vaulted ceiling supported by 28 marble columns with intricately carved capitals, almost all Corinthian or Byzantine. D0721.A8621
