| Municipality of Bicinicco
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Pop.: 1,832
Area: 15,91 sq. km, 36 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cuccana,
Felettis, Griis
Town Hall: V. Palmanova, 12 - 33050 Bicinicco
Phone.: 0432.990026 Fax: 0432.990768
www.comune.bicinicco.ud.it
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The small church
of S. Andrea at
Griis is no doubt the
most interesting
church in the
municipality, and probably in
the whole Friuli, since its
interior is completely covered
with frescoes (the choir, nave
and controfacciata)
representing episodes from
St. Andrew's life, Noah's
cycle, the Old and New
Testaments, figures of
Saints, Heaven, Purgatory
and Hell: this unique
example of extensive Biblia
pauperum may probably be
attributed to painters
Gaspare and Arsenio Negro
who worked here in 1531,
as supported by an
inscription on the right wall
near the vestry door,
showing the kneeling
clients, namely the parish
priest and people of Griis.
The figures portrayed are
sometimes naïve, dealt with
cursory essentiality,
sometimes
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disregarding
the rules of proper painting
but nonetheless vivid and
suggestive, capable of
deeply impressing the
devout population of the
time. Some scenes are
unforgettable, as the
ancestors' or Noah's
cycles, or the devilish
figure of Lucifer or the
souls in Purgatory rising to
Heaven. Popular frescoes
by unknown Friulian
painters (15th and 16th
centuries) decorate the
triumphal arch and choir of
the church of S. Marco
at Cuccana, while in the
church of S. Giusto at
Felettis frescoes by Fred
Pittino are found
(Pietà and St. Giusto's
Martyrdom, 1945).
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It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
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