Gothic-Italian architecture

The fall of the magistrate of Cagliari into Pisan hands, in 1258, is the historical premise for the construction of the cathedral of Santa Maria and the walls of the Castello district, which ended in 1305-07 with the towers of San Pancrazio and the Elephant, designed by Giovanni Capula and still surviving.
The fall of the magistrate of Cagliari into Pisan hands, in 1258, is the historical premise for the construction of the cathedral of Santa Maria and the walls of the Castello district, which ended in 1305-07 with the towers of San Pancrazio and the Elephant, designed by Giovanni Capula and still surviving.

The final phase of medieval Sardinian architecture is dominated by the affirmation and diffusion of the Gothic language. The peculiarity of the island's history, however, requires a distinction between Italian Gothic, which was practiced in the 14th century as a natural development of Romanesque architecture, and the Catalan Gothic, introduced by the Aragonese conquerors.
Since the middle of the 13th century, the presence of the Franciscans has determined the introduction into Sardinia of architectural and decorative types linked to Italian Gothic styles.

Among the most important buildings of Italian Gothic, the cathedral of Cagliari stands out, which preserves large parts of the transept added at the beginning of the 14th century and, among other things, houses the “William's Pergamon”, a masterpiece of European Romanesque sculpture.

In 1323 the Infante Alfonso landed on the island and in 1326 the surrender of the Cagliari Castle in Aragonese hands determined the end of Pisa in Sardinia. During the years of the siege, the sanctuary of Our Lady of Bonaria was built, the oldest Gothic-Catalan architecture on the island, imitated by the Sant'Agata chapel in the Royal Palace of Barcelona.

After the fall of Castello, the Gothic-Catalan chapel to the right of the altar was built in the cathedral of Santa Maria, showing off the Aragonese coat of arms: it is the sign of the takeover of the city, followed by the long war with the Arborea, destined to end only in 1478, with the Aragonese conquest and with the cultural and artistic catalanization of the whole of Sardinia

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25/9/2023 - 23:14