Sacred Spaces - Cosmatesque, or Cosmati
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Sacred Spaces
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Duomo di Spoleto
is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia --
in the Umbrian city of Spoleto, in Italy.
It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Built from the second half of the twelfth century after the city had been devastated by Frederick Barbarossa's troops, over an area where there had previously stood an earlier cathedral, dedicated to Saint Primianus (San Primiano) and destroyed by the emperor. A notable external porch and the belfry were added in the fifteenth and sixteenth century respectively.
Cosmatesque, or Cosmati, is a style of geometric decorative inlay stonework typical of the architecture of Medieval Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings, and derived from that of the Byzantine Empire. The name derives from the Cosmati, the leading family workshop of craftsmen in Rome who created such geometrical marble decorations.
The style spread across Europe, where it was used in the most prestigious churches; the high altar of Westminster Abbey, for example, is decorated with a Cosmatesque marble floor.
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Sacred Spaces
(of Saint Francis of Assisi)
Overlooking the hill town of Spoleto is Mount Monteluco
upon which we find the
Bosco Sacro (Sacred Grove)
and
Santuario_di_San_Francesco_(Monteluco)
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Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d'Assisi, Latin: Sanctus Franciscus Assisiensis), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/1182 – 3 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.
Santuario_di_San_Francesco_(Monteluco)
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