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Calvario (en)
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Calvario (en)


The Calvary of Montesano Salentino is a wide and deep apsidal shrine protected by an enclosure topped with six spire pinnacles. The structure is marked laterally by pairs of pilasters that house the paintings of two thieves; at its peak are towering spire pinnacles flanked by two pairs of terracotta chalices. The apsidal area is occupied by five paintings by the artist Giuseppe Bottazzi (1821 - 1890) of Diso illustrating, as in other calvaries made by him, the images of the Passion of Jesus Christ. At the center stands the Crucifixion with the Virgin, St. John and Mary Magdalene, while the sides of this representation are the Prayer in the Garden, the Flagellation, the Departure to Calvary and the Crowning of Thorns. At the base of the five representations is the scene of the Pieta with the Mourning over the Dead Christ by the Desolated Virgin, while the basin is a heaven irradiated by sunlight. Between the apse and the basin, the date of completion of the work is shown: AD / 1870.
Incrocio tra Via Chiano e Via San Donato, Montesano Salentino

bibliography sources:
ARDITI Giacomo, La corografia fisica e storica della Provincia di Terra d'Otranto, Stab. Tip. Scipione Ammirato, Lecce 1879-85, p. 367; DE GIORGI Cosimo, La Provincia di Lecce. Bozzetti di viaggio, Spacciante, Lecce 1888, vol.II, p.90; DAQUINO Cesare, Morciano di Leuca, Capone editore, Cavallino 1987.

historical information:
The Calvary of Montesano Salentino was erected in 1870 at the behest of the archpriest Don Isidoro Marra and Donato Bitonti, belonging to the most important family in the country, with the participation of citizens, as evidenced by a painted inscription at the base of the apse which reads: " WITH THE CHARITY OF THE FAITHFUL." The Calvary was made by Master Silvano Lecci of Montesano. The Calvaries, symbolic monuments of the great Italian fifth century, were proposed again in the eclecticism of the late nineteenth-century culture in an exclusively religious scale, meeting a lot of luck repurposing in other parts of Salento (Tricase, Alessano, Presicce, Casarano, Melissano, Racale, Castiglione, Andranno, Botrugno, Diso, Ruffano, etc.).
Info
accessibility:
Accessible
conservation:
Discreet
period of construction:
1870
local name:
Calvario
historical information:
The Calvary of Montesano Salentino was erected in 1870 at the behest of the archpriest Don Isidoro Marra and Donato Bitonti, belonging to the most important family in the country, with the participation of citizens, as evidenced by a painted inscription at the base of the apse which reads: " WITH THE CHARITY OF THE FAITHFUL." The Calvary was made by Master Silvano Lecci of Montesano. The Calvaries, symbolic monuments of the great Italian fifth century, were proposed again in the eclecticism of the late nineteenth-century culture in an exclusively religious scale, meeting a lot of luck repurposing in other parts of Salento (Tricase, Alessano, Presicce, Casarano, Melissano, Racale, Castiglione, Andranno, Botrugno, Diso, Ruffano, etc.).
bibliography sources:
ARDITI Giacomo, La corografia fisica e storica della Provincia di Terra d'Otranto, Stab. Tip. Scipione Ammirato, Lecce 1879-85, p. 367; DE GIORGI Cosimo, La Provincia di Lecce. Bozzetti di viaggio, Spacciante, Lecce 1888, vol.II, p.90; DAQUINO Cesare, Morciano di Leuca, Capone editore, Cavallino 1987.
num gps:
1038
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