CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA ADDOLORATA
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CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA ADDOLORATA
Constructed: 1873
Style: Neoclassical
Location: Via Pontano, Ischia Porto
The history of the elegant little church, Chiesa di Santa Maria Addolorata, began when the prominent Ischian, Morioni family, donated the land on Via Pontano for a church. The Archbishop, Mons. Francesco De Nicola d’Averea, noticing how devoted the local people were to a small statue of ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’, kept by a pious lady, Giuseppa Manzi, in a house nearby, encouraged the community to give their money and time towards building a church, to house this venerated icon. This was so successful, that construction took only 3 years.
This simple hall church is separated from the street by a few steps to the classical entrance porch with its two elegant terracotta vases. The nave of two bays with an apse is articulated by wide arches and a continuous entablature which runs right around the well-lit interior.
The small statue of S. Maria Addolorata in a resplendent cloak, is the focal point of the church and is set in a central niche behind the altar. On the walls on either side are two vivid paintings (attribution unknown, but likely to be 19th c) showing on the one side Christ after the ‘Deposition’, mourned by the Holy group and on the other side ‘The three Mary’s at the Sepulchre’. The iconography throughout the church is focused on the ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’.
A painting on the nave ceiling, seen as you enter the church, shows the crucified Christ, mourned by Mary Magdalene, Mary, Mother of Christ and S. John, with the retreating figure of S. Longinus, the Roman Centurion, on horse back in the distance returning to camp. The painting is signed by the artist, G. Fatiguso 1912.
Style: Neoclassical
Location: Via Pontano, Ischia Porto
The history of the elegant little church, Chiesa di Santa Maria Addolorata, began when the prominent Ischian, Morioni family, donated the land on Via Pontano for a church. The Archbishop, Mons. Francesco De Nicola d’Averea, noticing how devoted the local people were to a small statue of ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’, kept by a pious lady, Giuseppa Manzi, in a house nearby, encouraged the community to give their money and time towards building a church, to house this venerated icon. This was so successful, that construction took only 3 years.
This simple hall church is separated from the street by a few steps to the classical entrance porch with its two elegant terracotta vases. The nave of two bays with an apse is articulated by wide arches and a continuous entablature which runs right around the well-lit interior.
The small statue of S. Maria Addolorata in a resplendent cloak, is the focal point of the church and is set in a central niche behind the altar. On the walls on either side are two vivid paintings (attribution unknown, but likely to be 19th c) showing on the one side Christ after the ‘Deposition’, mourned by the Holy group and on the other side ‘The three Mary’s at the Sepulchre’. The iconography throughout the church is focused on the ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’.
A painting on the nave ceiling, seen as you enter the church, shows the crucified Christ, mourned by Mary Magdalene, Mary, Mother of Christ and S. John, with the retreating figure of S. Longinus, the Roman Centurion, on horse back in the distance returning to camp. The painting is signed by the artist, G. Fatiguso 1912.
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