Late Romanesque

In 1258, the Pisans who settled on the Cagliari hill of Castello devastated the judicial capital of Santa Igia (on the banks of today's Santa Gilla lagoon) and put an end to the Giudicato of Cagliari. The following year, Adelasia's death without heirs puts an end to Torres's magistrate. The Gallura one had already fallen under Pisan control, so only the judge of Arborea remains autonomous.
The others are divided between the various Genoese and especially Pisan lords. The late phase of Sardinian Romanesque began, in a period (the second half of the 13th century) when Italian and European architecture was moving towards the new Gothic language.

Between 1242 and 1268, the Abbey of Santa Maria was expanded in Bonarcado, by the same workers who later worked in San Pantaleo di Dolianova, between 1261 and 1289. In 1291, the architect Anselmo da Como designed the church of San Pietro di Zuri, the last significant building of Sardinian Romanesque architecture, in which Gothic forms were introduced. More than because of the new buildings, these and other smaller churches are interesting for their particularly accurate sculptural decoration.

Bonarcado stands out for peducci with an elongated and characteristically elaborate shape, in Dolianova capitelli with New Testament or apocalyptic scenes, in Zuri a real cycle, which includes the representation of a group of pilgrims on their way, emblematic of a great constant of devotional sentiment in the European Middle Ages.

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25/9/2023 - 23:10