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L’EDIFICIO DI CULTO: DA PARROCCHIALE A CHIESA DI CITTÀ

2004, SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE A GUARDIAGRELE. LA VICENDA MEDIEVALE

Abstract

From the fourteenth century, the collegiate church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Guardiagrele is the architectural and artistic center of this southern city of Abruzzo. It was rebuilted during the late medieval urban enlargement and its slow evolution followed the historical development of the town. Under the rule of Giovanni Orsini, the sanctuary was provided with a tower in the front and with a sopraelevetad choir. When the local universitas transformed the status of the building in “chiesa di città”, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the portal was reconstructed. In that period Guardiagrele gave hostitality to Teutonic artists, who carved the sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin in the lunette.