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| Church of Santa Filomena of Ugento | |
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| Church of Santa Filomena of Ugento | |
Chiesa di Santa Filomena di Ugento (Italian) | |
 Interior of the church | |
| Location | Ugento, Apulia, Italy |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | XVIII |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca |
The church of Santa Filomena is a deconsecrated church, in the heart of the historic center of Ugento, annexed to the former convent of the Benedictine nuns, now the seat of the municipality.[1][2][3]
History[edit]
The church of Santa Filomena (St Philomena) is annexed to a Benedictine monastery built in 1500[4] by order of Donna Gabriella Cortese of Ugento. In 1537 a part of the building was destroyed by the Turks, and the nuns were first raped and then sold as slaves on the Turkish markets. The only survivor was the Abbess, Sister Claramene from Brindisi, who after these events took back the reins of the monastery.[5]
Around 1700, the destroyed part of the monastery and also the annexed church began to be restored. Their conditions before the restoration are not known; nor can we say exactly what interventions were carried out. What is certain is that the interior was entirely restored and adorned with valuable stucco. These interventions lasted two years. With the advent of Napoleon and with a decree of 21 April 1813, the monastery was confiscated and became the property of the municipality, which used it as a prison and seat of the Court for Justice of the Peace. In the current state of the ancient monastery, only the deconsecrated church remains, deprived of the altars and every work of art, part of the cloister together with the ancient entrance portal. Everything else was demolished, now in ruins, to make way for the construction of the new municipal building. When the monastery was purchased by the municipality in 1963, the altars were demolished and transported to other places by order of the Bishop; the paintings were also moved and stored in the Episcopio rooms.[citation needed]
Description[edit]
The building consists of a single nave punctuated by round arches that divide the space into five bays. In the first bay on the left, starting from the back of the church, the entrance opens on the northern side. In the upper part, supported by a large arch, there is the choir gallery, with a double order of stalls and a small organ which accompanied the prayers and singing of the nuns. In the next two bays, there were four altars in the hollow of the walls. In the fourth bay, originally, there was a large oval canvas on the left wall, and the wooden pulpit on the right. In the last span, on a floor raised by two steps, there was the main altar and on the wall a canvas with four lateral ovals. The nuns could participate in mass thanks to four views of the nave. The main altar is characterized by polychrome marble and a very fine bas-relief depicting the "Visitation". We see a pregnant Elizabeth embracing Mary, who is also in the turgor of motherhood.[citation needed]
The four paintings of the side altars are preserved in the bishop's palace. To adorn their place of prayer, the nuns commissioned paintings from the Neretine Donato Antonio D'Orlando, who in 1616 created the large painting of Saint Benedict and saints, and in 1618 that of Saints Mary Magdalene and Francesca Romana. Furthermore, most likely, in the same period he created that of Mary's Visit to Elizabeth. In the Benedictine church there was another painting, the Madonna with Child and Saint Anne, dating back to the early 17th century, attributed to the Gallipoli painter Gian Domenico Catalano. Another canvas, dated 1793, is signed by Onofrio Messina; this depicts the Madonna del Carmine with the scapular offered to the souls in purgatory. On the floor, the Neapolitan majolica tiles reproduced a tangle of vine shoots on a sky blue background, stretching across the entire width of the building. In the center stood the large coat of arms of the monastery, still visible today.[citation needed]
From this church comes another marble altar which, adapted and reduced, is in the Ugentine church of San Giovanni Bosco. The Episcopio also preserves other paintings from the monastery; the first depicts Mary's visit to Elizabeth, the second reproduces the Madonna and child to whom an elderly woman (perhaps Saint Anne, perhaps a nun) offers a flower and a basket of red cherries; the third, perhaps from a previous era, presents the scene of San Benedetto saving San Placido from the waters, in the presence of San Mauro.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ CartApulia, Carta dei Beni Culturali della Regione Puglia (2018). "Ugento: restauro completato, s'inaugura la chiesa di Santa Filomena".
- ^ LeccePrima (2020). "Restauro della chiesa di Santa Filomena di Ugento, confermato il finanziamento regionale".
- ^ Lecce Oggi (2020). "Ugento: arrivano i fondi regionali per il restauro della chiesa di Santa Filomena".
- ^ Vivere Salento. "Ugento arte e cultura".
- ^ Francesco Corvaglia, Ugento e il suo territorio, Ugento, Amministrazione comunale, 1987 (Ugento, Tipografia F. Marra), 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.[page needed]
- ^ Museo diocesano di Ugento (2 February 2017). "Pittori e dipinti su tela, tra il XVII e il XIX secolo, a Ugento".
Bibliography[edit]
- Luciano Antonazzo, Guida di Ugento. Storia e arte di una città millenaria, Congedo, 2005.
- Luciano Antonazzo, Ugento sacra, ovvero antiche chiese - ex conventi e monasteri - edifici ecclesiastici e monumenti sacri della città di Ugento e della sua frazione Gemini, Foggia: Claudio Grenzi, 2020, 978-88-8431-790-2.
External links[edit]
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