Italia Amalfi 4 Il chiostro del paradiso

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Amalfi
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Il Chiostro del Paradiso
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What stands out amongst Amalfi's many riches is
without a doubt the magnificent Cathedral, a true
jubilation of art dedicated to Sant'Andrea patron
of the city
The Amalfi Coast boasts one of the most stunning
views in Italy
The Tuscan poet and writer Renato
Fucini (1843-1921) once wrote, Judgment Day will
feel like any other day to the people of Amalfi
who will go to Paradise.
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From the Cathedrals atrium you can access the
Chiostro del Paradiso, built in Arabic style
formed by columns and arches that frame
palm-filled gardens
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The Chiostro del Paradiso ("Cloister of
Paradise") the name reflects the original
function of the space. In the 13th century, this
was the cemetery for the noble merchants of Amalfi
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The Chiostro del Paradiso ("Cloister of Paradise")
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The Chiostro del Paradiso ("Cloister of
Paradise") was built by Filippo Augustariccio
between 1266 and 1268 and was used as a burial
ground for noble families of Amalfi. The white
columns and pointed arches reflect the clear
influence that the Arab world had on Amalfi,
similar to those found in the courts of the
palaces of the Middle East. It is a true
open-air museum, with Roman and medieval pillars,
classical sarcophaguses, reused for burial of
eminent people, fragments of a Byzantine period
pulpit (dating from 1174 1202) and fresco
fragments
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The remains of a Byzantine period pulpit (1174
1202) and a sarcophagus 2nd-century AD
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Fragments of the ambons of Archbishop Dionysios
late 12th-beginning of the 13th century
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The remains of a Byzantine period pulpit (dating
from 1174 1202), featuring inlaid mosaics of
the Cosmati school. Cosmati work, type of mosaic
technique that was practiced by Roman decorators
and architects in the 12th and 13th centuries, in
which tiny triangles and squares of coloured
stone (red porphyry, green serpen-tine, and white
and other coloured marbles) and glass paste were
arranged in patterns and combined with large,
stone disks and strips to produce geometric
designs 
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The ambons commissioned by Archbishop Dionysios
(1174-1202) was dismembered at the beginning of
the 700, as a result of the modernization of the
church wanted by Archbishop Michele Bologna
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The Cosmati were a Roman family, seven members of
which, for four generations, were skilful
architects, sculptors and workers in decorative
geometric mosaic, mostly for church floors.
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Their name is commemorated in the genre of
Cosmatesque work, often just called "Cosmati", a
technique of opus sectile ("cut work") formed of
elaborate inlays of small triangles and
rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics
set into stone matrices or encrusted upon stone
surfaces. 
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Initial inspiration for the technique was
Byzantine, transmitted through Ravenna
and Sicily, but some of the minutely-figured
tiling patterns are Islamic in origin,
transmitted through Sicily
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Box sarcophagus for infant burial featured a
Eroti representation during an initiation to the
Dionysian mysteries (3rd century A.D.)
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Box sarcophagus carved in high relief
illustrating the Union of Mars with Rhea Silvia
(2nd century A.D.) In the 13th century used as a
tumulus of a Archdeacon of Amalfi Cesario de
Alanio
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Box sarcophagus decorated in high relief
illustrates the Abduction of Proserpine (2nd
century A.D.)
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Moorish style interlaced arches, supported by 120
slender columns
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Duomos campanile, which was started before 1180
and completed in 1276
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Sarcophagus 3rd century A.D.
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Sepulchral plate 1462
Yucca gigantea Spineless Yucca
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Washingtonia is a palm tree 
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The Cloister of Paradise was built as a tomb for
the Amalfi aristocracy, between 1266 and 1268,
for the will of the Archbishop Filippo
Augustariccio. In order to build the cloister,
the left aisle of the Crucifix Basilica was
demolished to create the square colonnaded plan
structure enclosing the little garden. Along the
perimeter there are several chapels commissioned
by the most important noble families of Amalfi,
covered by frescoes, sculptural and marble
furniture.
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Chapel of Saint Andrew (14th century frescoes and
stuccoes) Niches in the right-hand walking have
damaged frescoes (chapels built by patrons
between the 12th and 14th centuries)
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The chapel of Salvatore (second half of the 13th
century frescoes and stuccoes)
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At the back, is a small chapel a magnificent
Crucifixion from the school of Giotto (Roberto
DOderisio). 
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Chapel of Crucifixion  The fresco is similar in
style to the Giotto School, and has been
attributed to Roberto dOderisio, artist trained
into Neapolitan Giottesque environment and
mentioned by the king of Naples, Carlo III from
Durazzo, as proto-painter of the court in 1382,
as successful completion of the long and virtuos
career
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Chapel of Saint Cosma and Damian (second half of
the 13th century frescoes and stuccoes)
From the Cloister you enter the Basilica of the
Crucifix, which was the first church on the site
dating back to 596 AD. It was the primary church
in Amalfi until the current Cathedral was built
in 1100. Now you will find the Cathedral Museum
located in this beautiful medieval space
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Sound Pina Cipriani - Quanno nascette
ninno (Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori )- fragment
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