Romanesque architecture in Sardinia

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Basilica of San Gavino, Porto Torres

The Sardinian Romanesque is the

Italian regions and from France. Consequently, in the architectures of that era Pisan, Lombard and Provençal influences are recognizable as well as traces of the passage of workers, coming from the Iberian Peninsula
, of Islamic culture.

History

Facade of the basilica of Saccargia, Codrongianos

The first Romanesque building on the island is the

Abbey of Saint-Victor de Marseille, Richard, the Basilica of San Saturnino and other properties for the monks to found a monastery. From then on, for several decades many religious orders arrived on the island, including the Camaldolese, the Vallombrosians, the Cistercians
, the Victorians, etc. Following this phenomenon, through the considerable financial commitment of the local nobility (mayorales), numerous private churches were founded, so the development of Romanesque architecture took place which, on the island, took on original and very interesting features.

Architecture

Basilica of San Simplicio, Olbia

Giulio Carlo Argan identifies in the Sardinian Romanesque of the 11th and 12th centuries a "particular attitude" to the two new Lombard and Tuscan currents,[2] which are often merged producing unprecedented results. As in the case of San Nicola di Trullas (before 1113) in Semestene (SS), the palatine chapel of Santa Maria del Regno (1107) in Ardara or the San Nicola di Silanis (before 1122) of Sedini (SS) and the Basilica of San Simplicio in Olbia (11th-12th century) just to name a few. There is no shortage of examples of exclusively Lombard architecture, as in the case of the Church of San Pietro di Zuri by master Anselmo da Como.

Central nave of San Pietro di Sorres, Borutta

There are also numerous French-derived architectures built on behalf of the

Templars
and the Lerinenses.

Among the Romanesque architecture of Sardinia numerous examples of churches of narrow

San Nicola di Ottana
(NU).

Remarkable are also the defensive structures such as the

Tower of the Elephant, designed by the Sardinian architect Giovanni Capula
.

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References

  1. ^ F.A. Pittui, Note sulle genealogie e la poetica della chiesa di San Nicola di Silanos. Sedini.,in Sacer, n. 12, Sassari, 2005 p. 89.
  2. ^ G.C. Argan, L'architettura protocristiana, preromanica e romanica, Bari, 1978 p. 45.
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