Baroque Splendour...

[endlessrarities]

A swift hop next door now from cathedral church #1 to cathedral church #2 in Amalfi.  And yesterday's debate continues: was church #1 a very large chapterhouse, or are we looking at a multiple church complex?  I'm now swayed towards the latter...

Apologies for the photography - my poor little camera far prefers stark whitewashed walls to all this frescoed magnificance.  Here's a view down the nave of the modern cathedral church:-

I think I prefer the more naive medieval style, but hey, you can't fault the standard of the workmanship. 

It gets more ornate than this, too, when you venture down into the crypt, in which is housed a shrine to Saint Andrew, with the inevitable reliquary...  We'll venture to that part of the cathedral church tomorrow.
 

Comments

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Oh, how beautiful!

[bellakara.livejournal.com]

The photographs are still clear. It certainly has a beautiful interior.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Some didn't make it through quality control, I'm afraid.

[technophobe1975.livejournal.com]

A bit wedding cake-ish for me I'm afraid. Still, I am looking forward to the reiquary!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I'm not keen on the Baroque frescoes, but I do like the marble inlay on the pillars.

Though it might be fake marble inlay, like it was in Sorrento. I didn't inspect it too closely...

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

It gets more ornate than this, too... Uh oh.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

If you don't like ornate plasterwork and general frothy decor, close your eyes and look away...

[aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com]

I should dig out that pic of the main altar in Worms cathedral. The cathedral itself is Romanesque but that alter is as gilded and Baroques as it can get. :)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Have to admit to not being a fan of Baroque architecture. I look at it occasionally to remind me how much I love the Romanesque! :o)

[red-trillium.livejournal.com]

Impressive, especially given how little they had to work with compared to today's tools and techniques. Rather ornate, pushing it for me but I'm still impressed by it (and there's more you say?????)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, the paintings on the pillars are amazing. How old is this? (... or did you say, last entry? Must go back and look...)