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At
the beginning of the ' 700 it goes back "the Dome dedicated to Announced
and Assumed Maria SS.". The church had been built up already in the
'400 but, still in the 1648 and then in the 1693, it had endured serious
damages because of the earthquakes.
[ To the principle of the ' 700 it came entire rifared: also the direction
is changed, of manner that the plant of the current building comes to cross
with that one of the ancient, that had its main prospect on the modern side
of east. But behind the sagrestia the apses and the transept of the ancient
church in one with large can still today be admired arched triumph ogive,
all decorated of beautiful shaping; and, of on the plateau bloomed of the
church-square one, the rests of the bell tower, stumped from the time, but
many evocative for that contour of greens prominences from the wonderful
panoramic background, and for the very quite harmony of the architectural
lines. The windows, in part ruined, have arch to full center registered
in a decorative cord, than it arrests nearly to the height of the tax, for
adorn oneself of an elegant floral reason... (Stefano Bottari, 1927) ] |
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The
church " matrix " reflects compositives and decoratives elements
that remember those Spanish, but acquires a mainly dynamics shape in the
waved and pyramidal course, with intentional to scroll and spandrels, reflecting
again the typical style of the sicilian baroque. |
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The
inside of the Dome is equally elegant, thanks to agile succession of arch
and the columns that subdivide it in three navate very proportionates. Above
all the two lateral nails head henhance for the excellence of the job. In
order not to say very of the many altars of church (13), true masterpieces
of art, under which some cripte, capacities hour to the light, were used
for the interments. In the Dome one is found statue of S. Caterina of Alexandria,
operates of the 1558 of Martino Montanini and Giuseppe Bottone. Remarkable
it is a chorus in carved walnut and a picture of the Annunciation. |
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