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CARNEVALE DI PUTIGNANO
CHURCH OF SAN PIETRO APOSTOLO
Putignano a history you don't expect
The East Facade
The east facade, very simple and linear, unlike the other additions, is plastered in milk of lime, adapting to the typical architectural constructions of the ancient village.
It has a very simple linearity animated by some openings of different sizes. Three windows illuminate the Choir and two, above, the Oratory.
The facade is lowered, looking to the left, in correspondence with the sacredness, whose access door, moved in recent times, is surmounted by a window with an elegant Baroque line. Above this, two century niches contain two stone statues, placed here at the time of the last renovations work in the eighteenth
Of these statues, the first depicts, according to the Christian iconography that spread in the fifteenth century, San Rocco, the saint of French origin, protector of plague victims who died in Italy. Sculpted in 1529 and placed in an unspecified place in our Church, so that the Saint "with his protection would perpetually preserve our people" from the plague that spread throughout the kingdom, it is the sure work of Stefano da Putignano, or of his school, as evidenced the documented date and the stylistic signs that can also be found in the replica of the same subject, preserved in the Church of S. Cosma in Polignano a Mare.
The second, still Gothic and stylistically poorer, depicting St. John the Baptist. It was sculpted more than fifty years earlier, probably commissioned by the bailiff Giambattista Carafa, as evidenced by his coat of arms placed at the height of the saint's legs.
It has a very simple linearity animated by some openings of different sizes. Three windows illuminate the Choir and two, above, the Oratory.
The facade is lowered, looking to the left, in correspondence with the sacredness, whose access door, moved in recent times, is surmounted by a window with an elegant Baroque line. Above this, two century niches contain two stone statues, placed here at the time of the last renovations work in the eighteenth
Of these statues, the first depicts, according to the Christian iconography that spread in the fifteenth century, San Rocco, the saint of French origin, protector of plague victims who died in Italy. Sculpted in 1529 and placed in an unspecified place in our Church, so that the Saint "with his protection would perpetually preserve our people" from the plague that spread throughout the kingdom, it is the sure work of Stefano da Putignano, or of his school, as evidenced the documented date and the stylistic signs that can also be found in the replica of the same subject, preserved in the Church of S. Cosma in Polignano a Mare.
The second, still Gothic and stylistically poorer, depicting St. John the Baptist. It was sculpted more than fifty years earlier, probably commissioned by the bailiff Giambattista Carafa, as evidenced by his coat of arms placed at the height of the saint's legs.
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