Italia Ravello 2 Il Duomo

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RAVELLO
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Il Duomo
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Ravello is a town situated above the Amalfi
Coast in the province of Salerno, southern
Italy, with approximately 2,500 inhabitants.
Ravello inspired many famous composers including
Richard Wagner, Edvard Grieg, Bernstein
Toscanini, artists such as Escher, Mirò
writers such as Ruskin, Boccaccio, D H Lawrence
The scenic location of Ravello makes it a popular
tourist desti-nation, and earned it a listing as
a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997
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Built in the 11th century with support from the
Rufolo family, the Duomo is a combination of
Baroque and Romanesque styles. The Duomos
shining white façade dates back to the last major
restoration in 1931
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Dedicated to Saint Pantaleone, the church has
undergone extensive modifications and
restorations over the past 900 years. The Duomos
bell tower, which dates back to the 13th century,
shows Moorish and Byzantine influence
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Bronze door of the Ravello Cathedral Constructed
in 1179 by Barisano da Trani, the door is of
special interest because fewer than two dozen
bronze church doors are still extant in Italy,
three of them by Trani. Unquestioned date (1179),
ordered by Sergio Muscettola, Sigilgaida
Pironti's husband. An inscription with the date
is on the central panel on the third row of the
left jamb.
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Elijah the Prophet
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Saint George
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Saint Eustache
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Fifty-four tiles, distributed on nine rows with
perfect symmetry on the two doors, have various
figures printed on them and point to Byzantine,
Eastern, and Arab influences. They include
archers, fighters, prophets, holy knights,
apostles, and heraldic animals, as well as Jesus,
John the Baptist, and Mary
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Saint John the Baptist
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Engraving of the bronze door (1898) Bronze door
of the cathedral (anonymous engraver 1898)
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The interior, with nave, two aisles and three
apses, has the peculiarity of the floor being
sharply inclined towards the square, for the
purpose of obtaining a deeper perspective effect
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An item of special note is the pulpit, which is
supported by six spiraled columns sitting atop
marble lions.
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Pulpit of the Gospel
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The roots of lion as a symbol can be traced back
to the Old Testament and the other ancient
civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean. The
remote and ancient roots of the motif have been
used as an argument for the lion as a pictorial
convention that was imported to Christian culture
as pure form borrowed from Oriental art
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A large proportion of the lions in Romanesque
ecclesiastical art are guardians of the church,
often constituting part of the architectural
sculpture of the portal
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Often the Romanesque lion can be seen supporting
objects of physical or symbolical weight. Thrones
have already been mentioned, other such objects
are baptismal fonts, pulpits, the pillars of the
church portal or even the church building itself.
Art historian Frans Carlson has made a convincing
argument, explaining much of the figurative
Romanesque building sculpture as supporting the
church concretely bearing the church building,
symbolically supporting the church as an
institution
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The pulpit was created in 1272 by Nicolo di
Bartolomeo. According to medieval art historian
Francesco Abbate, the beautiful artifact
recalls, after a whole century, Campanias
traditional quadrangular ambons, with supporting
columns and mosaic decorations. In the 12th
century, Ravello had some 25,000 inhabitants
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The decorative mosaics patterns inspired the
interlocking patterns used by M.C. Escher, who
spent time in Ravello in the 1920s and studied
the church and the pulpit Ravello was one of his
favorite places
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Across from the pulpit, to the left, is the Ambo
of the Epistles that boasts two wonderful mosaics
of Jonah and the whale
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Two precious mosaics depicting Jonah and the Male
decorates the side of the staircase of the
'Pulpit of the Epistles' in the Duomo of Ravello
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the 'Pulpit of the Epistles'
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While the museums collection is relatively
small, it contains several significant sculptures
and other works of art, most notably the famous
marble bust believed by many to be Sigilgaita
Rufolo, the wife of Nicola Rufolo, the
13th-century merchant who commissioned the
cathedrals pulpit. Other sources say the bust
represents the Madonna or, alternatively, Joanna,
the Queen of Naples
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Reliquary of Santa Barbara
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