Wall tabernacle with Scotti COA 1490 - 1510

wall tabernacle - Piacenza area (late/early 15th/16th century)
MURAL TABERNACLE, 1490 - 1510
Two dolphins crown the gray stone temple made up of two twisted columns on which rests an architrave with protruding cherub heads. Vine shoots are carved around the door

OBJECT
wall tabernacle
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
stone/sculpture
CULTURAL FIELD
Piacenza area
LOCATION
Vernasca (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
Rather rare architectural typology in the Piacenza area. However, similar architecture is preserved in Borgonovo Val Tidone, in the parish church. Arata dates it to the 16th century, when the sacristy was opened on the initiative of the Scottis
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL CONDITION
property Catholic religious body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800158259
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
COATS OF ARMS
on the base - noble - Coat of arms - Scotti -