Altar

altar - Piacenza area (late 17th century)
ALTAR,
Urn altar. Two little angels flank the concrete columns painted in mottled pink to simulate marble. Two large flattened volutes ending in slender leaves flank the niche containing the statue of San Francesco. Crowning moved and interrupted in the center by a cartouche within which is the Franciscan symbol. On the sections of the tympanum two little angels and in the center a vase from which crowns of fruit and flowers descend

OBJECT
altar
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
stucco/ modeling/ painting
CEMENT
CULTURAL FIELD
Piacenza area
LOCATION
Vernasca (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
This altar too, like the one referred to in sheet no. 5 dates back to the late seventeenth century and was built by the Douglas Scotti family by a craftsman who was attentive to the solutions offered in contemporary Lombard altars. The typology of the altar with a niche raised containing sculptures is also very widespread in Lombardy, while the pierced table with an urn in place of the frontal is a widespread typology in the churches of Piacenza and it seems to me less frequent in those of the area (see the altars of the church of the Madonna della Neve in Riva di Ponte dell'Oglio or the parish church of San Martino in Torrano). (see Coccioli Mastroviti A., Giovan Battista Zaist architect and quadraturist from Cremona (1700-1757), master's thesis, rel. Ottani Cavina A., 1986-1987)
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800158203
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
FILING BODY
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
REGISTRATIONS
in the cartouche above the niche - DECAE ERO/ NEMO MIHI/ MOLESTUS SIT - capital letters - brushed - Latin
COATS OF ARMS
under the side angels - noble - Coat of arms - Douglas Scotti - 2 -