Reggio Emilia Cathedral

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Reggio Emilia Cathedral
Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite (Roman)
Location
Location	Reggio Emilia, Italy
Architecture
Style	first Romanesque, then Renaissance and Baroque

Reggio Emilia Cathedral (

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Description

Built originally in Romanesque style, the cathedral was largely modified in the following centuries. The façade originally had 13th-century frescoes, now housed in the diocesan museum.

The current façade is unfinished, with a 16th-century covering on the lower level, with pilasters surrounding niches containing the statues of the four patron saints of the city. The main portal has two statues by Prospero Spani (Prospero Sogari) in a style influenced by Michelangelo, portraying Adam and Eve.

In February 2009 it was announced that a Roman mosaic floor filled with scenes depicting pagan rites and oriental gods had been discovered underneath the cathedral. The mosaic pavement, which measures 13 square meters and dates to the 4th century AD, was unearthed at a depth of about 4 meters below the ground during archaeological investigations in the crypt. The size and design of the mosaic pavement suggest that it formed the floor of a huge room.^[1] The mosaic pavement has become an important piece of the Museo Diocesano (Museum of the Diocese), which exposes also fragments of ancient churches, dating back to the times of

(Christ in throne amidst angels), originally located in the main altar of the cathedral.

The chapels

• The Brami Chapel has an altarpiece by Jacopo Palma il Giovane
• The Toschi Chapel was designed by
  Pomarancio
• The Rangone Chapel has a funeral monument to Bishop Ugo Rangone carved by Prospero Spani (Il Clemente).
• The main altarpiece is an Assumption by Federico Zuccari
• The Chapel of the Holy Sacrament has traces of frescoes from the 1500s by a pupil of
  Correggio, Giovanni Giarola
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• The Fiordibelli Chapel has paintings by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino

There are also works by Carlo Bononi, Francesco Vellani, Sebastiano Vercellesi, and Orazio Talami, whilst Annibale Carracci's The Virgin Appears to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine originally hung in the cathedral's notaries' chapel. The cupola frescoes are by Francesco Fontanesi (1779).

References

44°41′51″N 10°37′51″E / 44.69750°N 10.63083°E / 44.69750; 10.63083