Bergamo Cathedral
ancient church
Saint Vincent
The religious construction of the Bergamo Cathedral was built on the site
where the ancient church stood
of San Vincenzo, perhaps built in the Lombard era,
recent discoveries underground
cathedral revealed their presence
of two churches that preceded it,
both large and that
they followed the perimeter of the current temple,
the early Christian cathedral e
the Romanesque one dedicated to San Vincenzo.
Both Catholic buildings were supposed to
be majestic and richly decorated
as evidenced by the remains of paving
mosaic from the 6th century they
13th century frescoes. In the late 1400s
it was decided to build the Cathedral
current and at the initial stage of the work
contributed the famous Filarete.
The construction of the Cathedral has been completed
at the end of the 17th century the temple was dedicated
in Sant'Alessandro. Completion
of the cathedral, which houses works
by Gian Battista Tiepolo, Giovan
Battista Moroni, Sebastiano Ricci and
Andrea Previtali, occurred only in the last phase
in the nineteenth century with the creation
of the dome, while the facade rises
to 1866.
Inside the Cathedral
in the first chapel on the right San Benedetto in cathedra and Saints by Andrea Previtali
and in the one on the left Madonna with Child and Saints by Giovan Battista Moroni.
The Chapel of the Crucifix preserves a crucifix dating back to the 16th century.
There are also three pipe organs. The first and oldest is a Felice Bossi from 1842 with entirely mechanical transmission and set in a beautiful wooden complex by Giovan Battista Caniana, the second instrument it is a 1943 Balbiani Vegezzi-Bossi with electric transmission which was definitively expanded in 2009 and moved to Cornu Epistolae.
In the apse behind the altar there are seven large paintings, including the Martyrdom of Saint John the Bishop by Giambattista Tiepolo. The Sant'Alessandro in the apse basin is the work of Carlo Innocenzo Carloni.
The altar of the Cathedral was built based on designs by Filippo Juvara. The crypt preserves a fresco of fourteenth century, a pluteus and a twisted column of the ancient cathedral.
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The Chapel of the Crucifix preserves a crucifix dating back to the 16th century.
There are also three pipe organs. The first and oldest is a Felice Bossi from 1842 with entirely mechanical transmission and set in a beautiful wooden complex by Giovan Battista Caniana, the second instrument it is a 1943 Balbiani Vegezzi-Bossi with electric transmission which was definitively expanded in 2009 and moved to Cornu Epistolae.
In the apse behind the altar there are seven large paintings, including the Martyrdom of Saint John the Bishop by Giambattista Tiepolo. The Sant'Alessandro in the apse basin is the work of Carlo Innocenzo Carloni.
The altar of the Cathedral was built based on designs by Filippo Juvara. The crypt preserves a fresco of fourteenth century, a pluteus and a twisted column of the ancient cathedral.