Thursday 12 December 2013

sculpture (artist/title unknown) San Quirico d'orcia, Italy



San Quirico ios notable for its collegiate church which was once a rural pieve from the 8th century, it was rebuilt into the current structure in the 12th century. it is built on the Latin cross plan, with a single nave and side chapels.
notable is the main portal, in Lombard style, consisting in a decorated protiro in sandstone, with columns supported by lions,the arch includes ten columns, whose capitals are decorated with animals and vegetable figures, while the architrave features two crocodiles facing each other. the lunette has a high-relief sculpture allegedly portraying St. Damasus, though likely to be identified with St. Quiricus. a side portal, added in the 13th century, has been attributed to Giovanni Pisano, who was in Siena at the time


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