The architectural factories of the Savoy age

Some important long-standing city factories mark the moment of Sardinia's transition from the Spanish royals to the Savoy rulers.

In 1714, with the façade porch decorated by Lombard and Genoese sculptors, the late-Baroque building interventions in the Romanesque cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Sassari, restored in the Aragonese age, which has always been the monumental hub of the historic city center, were completed. Between 1674 and 1712, the Jesuit complex of San Michele in Cagliari was built, with an impressive late-Baroque façade actually relating to the porch that joins the church developed according to central lines, supported by the decorative apparatus, also here of Iberian type.

In line with the local latdomanierist tradition, inaugurated by the Cagliari cathedral and updated only superficially by baroque furnishings, the cathedral of San Pietro in Ales, built between 1686 and 1725 under the direction of Domenico Spotorno, was developed.

Between the 18th and 19th centuries, the historic center of Oristano was configured in the most significant monumental emergencies that are today the most significant and connotating its urban fabric. The cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, hitherto configured as a Romanesque room (first decades of the 12th century) with a Gothic-Italian transept (mid-14th century), underwent a complete reconstruction by 1745, according to a plan that was once again latdomanierist but updated, in the elevations, in ways that in the following moments of manufacture mark the further, gradual transition from Baroque to Neoclassical, destined to establish itself from the beginning of the 19th century

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11/3/2024 - 10:18