Bosa, Tomba Mastino

The Mastino chapel is in the Bosa cemetery.
The Mastino chapel was built between 1924 and 1925 by the architect Alessandro Limongelli, active in Rome and Libya, then an Italian colony. The small building stands out for its sober design, highlighted by travertine, a typical Roman stone like the designer and the entrepreneur who oversaw its construction. On a polygonal base, at each edge it is marked by columns that hold squares bearing Carrara marble slabs with relief figures by the sculptor Giovanni Prini. The entrance recalls a triumphal arch, thanks also to the medallions inserted on the sides. The interior is covered by a dome covered externally with laminated lead and is completed by the bronze group of the Pietà, also by Prini himself. The architect Limongelli also oversaw the renovation of the Mastino cottage in the town of Sa Pittada and the design of the Naitana chapel, also in the Bosa cemetery.

History of studies
A review of studies can be found in the bibliography relating to the fact sheet in the volume “History of Art in Sardinia”, on nineteenth-century architecture (2001).

Bibliography by
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 1900s. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 42.