Church of Sant'Angelo, Perugia

The round church of San Michele Arcangelo (also called Tempio di Sant'Angelo ) in the Umbrian town of Perugia is an early Christian church from the 5th / 6th Century. It is dedicated to Archangel Michael.

Architectural History

About the church very little reliable information is known; most of it is speculative: The church was probably built on the foundations of a Mithraeum or an ancient round temple or even an Etruscan rotunda. In the Middle Ages, the building served as a parish church. Probably already dilapidated - - Construction partially torn down and used as a military fortress in the 15th century was. In the 16th century, however, the Cardinal Tiberio Crispo ordered a restoration. With a further restoration in 1948, remains of frescoes have been discovered.

Architecture

The ground floor of the building is built of only slightly edited rubble; only the border of the inserted in the 13th century and repeatedly downgraded Gothic pointed arch portal consists of bricks. Left and right of the portal arches formerly existing windows are begin to recognize; the mighty buttresses seem - to have been added later - despite the broken stone material used. The reel assembly with its twelve arched windows consists of layers of bright rubble and red brick.

In plan, from the year 1860, the exterior is a slightly irregular hexadecagon with a later added - oriented to the northeast - apse with two small lateral apses. The interior of the ground floor windowless church is dominated by 16 antique - re-used with great certainty as spolia - monolithic columns made ​​of different stone material and with ancient capitals, which support a superstructure, whose eight built of bricks and slightly uphill to the center ribs support a wooden roof structure. The church is exposed only through the windows of the drum projectile; there is only a small window in the apse. The entire handling of the ground floor is not sprung, but covered in a similar manner as the drummer.

Others

  • A few meters from the entrance portal is a stone with a pentagram ( also Drudenfuß ') is embedded in the floor of the church hall, which has given rise to many speculations.
  • Be incised letters found in several capitals in Greek characters, about their possible internal context and its possible meaning can also only be speculated.
  • In some masonry units crosses are carved, the distance resemble a Templar cross.

Pictures

Gothic fresco with hl. Veronika and Others

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