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Church of San Francesco (Oristano)

Church of San Francesco (Oristano)

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Church of San Francesco (Oristano)

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Location: Aristanis/Oristano, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy

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Hund

September 21, 2022

The Church of San Francesco in Oristano stands next to the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the Archbishop's Seminary. Inside is also the Convent of San Francesco, built in 1335 but completely remodeled and completed in the 19th century along with the church.

The Church of San Francesco in Oristano has a neoclassical façade, but originally (i.e. when the Franciscans arrived in Oristano in 1253) the church was Gothic in style.

The facade of the Church of San Francesco has three portals and consists of two pillars and four columns supporting the tympanum. A hemispherical dome with an octagonal lantern crowns the building.
The interior, with a central plan, has two chapels on each side. The coffered dome is supported by pillars and semi-columns with Ionic capitals.

The first chapel on the left houses the Christ of Nicodemus, a remarkable 14th-century wooden sculpture of the Spanish school, prototype of a series of crucifixes, including the wooden crucifix of Ollolai, preserved in various churches in Sardinia.

In the sacristy there are other valuable works, such as the panel (1533), once part of an altarpiece, depicting St. Francis receiving the stigmata, the work of Pietro Cavaro and the marble statue (1368) possibly representing St. Basil Magnificent, attributed to Nino Pisano [3].

Source: oristanoturismo.it

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Jenny

January 9, 2023

The Franciscan Order has been present in Sardinia since 1230, and the monastery of San Francesco was founded in Oristano as early as 1253. There is no documentary evidence of the Gothic construction of the church. By the early 19th century, it was in serious disrepair, so Archbishop Giovanni Maria Bua decided to rebuild it from scratch rather than restore it. Thus, it was destroyed in 1835, and on February 17 of the following year, the foundation stone of the new church was blessed. It was designed by the Sassari friar Antonio Cano, a royal protégé who had studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. The building collapsed on September 18, 1838, before the dome was completed. From the surviving survey of the church-monastery complex and its surroundings, it can be deduced that the dome had an elliptical shape, as is typical for Cano's works. Shortly thereafter, the task was assigned to the most important Sardinian architect of the 19th century, Gaetano Cima of Cagliari. The project, submitted on September 18, 1841, was approved on April 22, 1842, and work then began. The building, rebuilt according to the forms of purist classicism, reopened for worship in October 1847.

The current building has a central plan with two chapels on each side and a deep semicircular apse. From the left chapel, a small room leads to the sacristy. The façade, accessible via a wide staircase with eight steps, is preceded by a tympanum-pronaos supported by four columns and two pilasters. All supports are surmounted by Ionic capitals. The façade features a large central portal and two smaller symmetrical side portals. The central body of the building is covered by a large hemispherical dome, standing on a cylindrical drum and surmounted by a polygonal lantern.
Source and further information: sardegnacultura.it/j/v/253?v=2&c=2488&t=1&s=18322

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