Forgotten World - Santa Maria di Cartignano, Italy - 02
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Forgotten World - Santa Maria di Cartignano, Italy - 02
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AM FineArtPrints
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Forgotten World - Santa Maria di Cartignano, Italy - 02 by Andrea Mazzocchetti
The church of Santa Maria di Cartignano is a religious building located near Bussi sul Tirino, in the province of Pescara.
A national monument since 1902, the church has now been transformed into a visitable site, and is known for its shape (lack of central coverage) and conservation.
News of the first construction are around the eleventh century: in 1021 a papal bull quotes a Benedictine cell dedicated to St. Benedict. In the following years the church grew in importance, becoming a real male monastery named after Santa Maria di Cartignano, continuing to be the cell of the abbey of Montecassino but endowed with its own Rector; in 1057 it was, for example, a certain Giovanni. From 1200 to 1300 there is no more news of the church, until 1390, in which the Duke Cantelmo di Popoli took care of the church, together with the fief of Bussi, demanding a new monastic order and hierarchy of abbots under his personal guidance.
However this did not make it possible to allow the long life of the church, which in 1500 and 1600 was completely abandoned into oblivion. In the eighteenth century the church was incorporated into the territory of the abbey of San Liberatore a Majella and the Celestine Monks of Morrone. Documents of 1770 attest that the church was still intact and in perfect state of preservation, until it was completely abandoned in 1800, and the subsequent rediscovery in 1900. However, in those years many earthquakes had hit the Abruzzo, causing the whole roof to collapse. building. The church was rediscovered in the second half of the twentieth century, and fully restored, being turned into a site open to the public.
The exterior has a typical thirteenth-century appearance, consisting of a very simple façade, composed of a minute portal with a semicircle architrave, a floral rose window, and a sailing bell tower, the result of reconstruction for anastylosis, after the original collapse. The other integral part of the church is the apse with "dentelli" decorations, and the rear façade. The sides of the church are surrounded by small arches. On the left side of the church, close to a hill, there are remains of the so-called "hermit of the shepherd", that is a small house that welcomed the hermits.
The interior before the restoration possessed various frescoes and objects of worship, then they were transferred to L'Aquila, in the National Museum of Abruzzo. There remains a single fresco in the apse, depicting the Christ Blessing, seated on a throne between the Madonna and St. John the Baptist. Other frescoes are visible in the remains of the lateral covering walls, depicting St. Nicholas, St. Benedict, St. Agatha, St. Paul, St. Amico, St. Mauro and St. Peter.
Inside there was also an important bas-relief, today preserved in the parish church of Bussi sul Tirino: the death in the Cross of Christ with some winged figures flying around it, and two imposing lions that protect the sculpture, in decorative sign.
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