Gonnostramatza

Gonnostramatza ( Tamariskenhügel ) is an Italian commune in the province of Oristano ( OR) in Sardinia.

Attractions

Parish Church

In the parish church of the small country church is the altar " Retablo di San Paolo " from 1501, the only signed and dated work of Lorenzo Cavaro Stampace. The signature is: De l'any MDI it pintada feta la dit retaulu by mas de Lores mestal Cavaro de Stampa. Lorenzo and especially his son Pietro Cavaro are considered the founders of the School of Stampace, named after the city district of the capital Cagliari, in which lay their studios. Pietro Cavaro, who worked about 1508-1537, influenced 16th -century painting in Sardinia and is considered by many art critics as the greatest Sardinian painter.

• In Pessa ( middle part ) and the crucifixion including the enthroned Madonna is shown on the left and right panel, respectively opposite, the Angel of the Annunciation and the Annunziata and Peter and Paul.
• In the nine -part predella, the three middle panels are form the Tabernacle (left to right ) to see: Saint Catherine of Alexandria, St. George ( on horseback ), Saint Sebastian, the Addolorata ( Our Lady of Sorrows ), Christ ( Pietà ), the Holy John Pantaleon, Julius ( on horseback ) and Lucia.

Museum

In the village is the "Museo Turcus e Morus " has the raids of the Turks and Moors on the topic.

Environment

Southeast, not far from Gonnostramatza, but already in the province of Medio Campidano, located in the vast rural parish church situation of Lunamatrona, the altar " Retablo di Santa Maria ", situated in the first chapel on the right side; probably the work of Antioco Mainas. The photo program similar to the altarpiece of Gonnostramatza, only Peter and Paul were relegated to the simple, five-part predella and replaced by John the Baptist and the Archangel Michael. Refreshing is Mainas naive re-enactment of a Raphael Madonna on the center image.