Padua Cathedral

The Cathedral of Padua 's Basilica (Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta cattedrale - " Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption " ) in Padua is the bishop's church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua.

History

The Diocese of Padua derives from early Christian beginnings. The tradition names the apostles students Prosdochimus ( † about 100) as the founder and first bishop. Remains of an ancient church cathedral and early medieval Folgebauten should be located below the present Domvorplatz.

1075 consecrated bishop Uldericus a new, representative cathedral, which was destroyed in the earthquake of 1117, and to 1180 replaced by a Romanesque cathedral. Their location and floor plan, including the unusual west exposure, had already complied with the present structure.

The Romanesque Baptistery at the northeast corner of the cathedral was completed in 1281, the painting by Giusto de ' Menabuoi 1378th

The emergence of the present cathedral began in 1522 with the groundbreaking ceremony for a new choir on the model of St. Peter's in Rome. The first plan was by Jacopo Sansovino. Following a competition in 1551, the cathedral chapter decided on a design by Michelangelo, which was implemented until 1582 with some changes.

Right and left transept and nave - - As of 1635, the other parts of the old cathedral were gradually demolished and replaced in the style of the time. 1754, the work was stopped, although the plans of Girolamo Frigimelica († 1732), who most recently was the site management, were not completed; in particular the façade remained unfinished.

Architecture

The cathedral in the forms of the Renaissance and Baroque is a three-aisled basilica on the plan of a Latin cross. The choir and the transept arms close with Rundapsiden. Over the crossing is a laternenbekrönte dome with a slim round drum. A lower octagon rises above the third Langhausjoch, flanked by two mid- ship high chapels, so that apparently results in a second, smaller crossing.

The barrel-vaulted, light-flooded through clear glass window interior is bright plastered and economically divided with arches, pillars, capitals and dark contrasting entablatures.

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In the first chapel on the left, the Chapel of the Madonna of the blind, there is a Madonna and Child by Stefano dall'Arzere. For the second altar Pietro Damini created a painting of St. Jerome and the founder Girolamo selvatico, for the third chapel is a representation of the crucified Christ with Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine.

On the portal page cenotaph Francesco Petrarch by Rinaldo Rinaldi is ( was buried Petrarch, who was a canon of the cathedral, in Arquà Petrarca ). In the sacristy of the canons, the most important of the numerous works of art are a Madonna by Giusto de ' Menabuoi and two paintings by Giandomenico Tiepolo ( St. Philip Neri and St.. Jerome Ämiliani ) and a Descent from the Cross by Jacopo da Montagnana.

In the cathedral is, inter alia, to the artistically valuable Tomb of the previous local bishop and later papal legate or nuncio to Germany, cardinal Pietro di Prata Pileo († 1401 ).

The choir was redesigned in 1997, including statues of contemporary sculptor Giuliano Vangi Tuscan.

The crypt contains an altar with reliefs of Tiziano Aspetti and an old icon of the Virgin in Giotto style.

The great organ was built in 1958 by the organ builder Tamburini. At the beginning of the 21st century, the instrument of the organ building firm Zanin was reorganized, with individual organ works were carved out of the historic organ case and placed in new housings in the church. The instrument now has 72 speaking stops on four manual and pedal works. It can allude from a four -manual console from. The tracker action are electric.