Places to see in ( Modica - Italy ) Chiesa di San Giorgio

Places to see in ( Modica - Italy ) Chiesa di San Giorgio

The Duomo of San Giorgio is a Baroque church located in Modica, Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy. It is the Mother Church of the city and it is included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO. The building is the final result of the eighteenth century reconstruction, which took place following the disastrous earthquakes that struck Modica in 1542, in 1613 and in 1693.

The reconstruction started in 1702, and ended in 1738. Further works were made until the affixing of the iron cross on the spire in 1842, which marked the definitive appearance of the church. According to the art historian Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco the Church should be included among "the seven wonders of the baroque world". The cathedral of San Giorgio is the mother church of the city of Modica , in the Libero municipal consortium of Ragusa , and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List .

It is often indicated and marked as a symbolic monument of the Sicilian Baroque , of which it represents the most scenographic and monumental architecture. The art historian Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco declared that this Church "could be inserted between the seven wonders of the baroque world". The building is the final result of the six / eighteenth century reconstruction, which occurred following the disastrous earthquakes that struck Modica in 1542 , in 1613 and in 1693 (the most serious one, see the Val di Noto earthquake ); slight damage caused the earthquakes in the Iblea area that occurred during the eighteenth century and in 1848 .

The first official document that certifies the presence of a church dedicated to St. George in the city of Modica is a papal bull of 1150 , issued by Pope Eugene III , with whom the Ecclesia S. Giorgi de Mohac was placed, together to the sister of St. John the Evangelist already present in the upper part of the city, under the protection of the Monastery of Miletus , in Calabria. But probably its first edifice would have been directly commissioned by Count Ruggero d'Altavilla , starting from the Norman conquest of Sicily, around 1090 . San Giorgio was erected in Collegiatawith the bull of Urban VIII of 6 November 1630 .

The current façade - with its surprising analogies with the contemporary Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden - was realized by modifying, perhaps even with partial demolition, the pre-existing seventeenth century, of which we have no documents or drawings but which had resisted the force of the earthquake. However, the liturgical activities in the Cathedral were never suspended, except for a few months after the tremendous earthquake of 1693 which had brought down the roofs, restored to them in 1696 , at the pastoral visit of the bishop of Syracuse , the church was in full exercise of its functions.

The interior of the church has five naves, with 22 columns surmounted by Corinthian capitals. The temple is dedicated to the martyrs San Giorgio and Ippolito , and among the naves there is a magnificent organ with 4 keyboards, 80 registers and 3000 canes, fully functional, built between 1885 and 1888 by the Bergamasco Casimiro Allieri; a painting by the Tuscan school, L'Assunta , of the late Florentine Mannerist Filippo Paladini ( 1610 ); a delightful naïve painting on wood, The Nativity of the Milanese painter Carlo Cane (1615-1688), of the second half of the seventeenth century; the seventeenth-century painting ( 1671 )The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus , signed by the little known Cicalesius, a marble statue of the Gagini school, the Madonna della Neve , of the Palermo workshop of the Carraresi Bartolomeo Berrettaro and Giuliano Mancino , dated 1511. On the altar at the end of one of the two aisles on the right, stands the Holy Ark, called Santa Cassa , an inlaid silver work built in Venice in the fourteenth century, and donated to the Church by the patrons of the Chiaramonte dynasty.

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