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The Cathedral
of Santa
Maria
Annunziata is
the largest and
most important
church in the city.
A small church
dedicated to S. Odorico, built
since 1236 by Patriarch
Berthold of Andechs in the
beginning, it was enlarged in
1335 by Bertrand of St.
Genesius who consecrated it
to Sta. Maria Maggiore.
Several times remodelled
(in 1383 it was prolonged, in
the 16th century the two side
chapels were added, in the
18th century Baroque
decorations were added
mainly by Abondio Stazio
and Domenico Rossi), in the
early 1900s the salient façade
was restored to its 14thcentury
original. The bell
tower, incorporated in the
duomo, is a squat building
started in 1441 by
Bartolomeo delle Cisterne
who leaned its walls onto the
existing octagonal 1348
baptistery. Two of the duomo
portals are 14th-century and
preserve the lovely bas-reliefs
of
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Redemption (on the façade) and Coronation
(north side) attributed to a
German master. The duomo
interior acquired airy
splendour thanks to the 18thcentury
remodelling,
culminating in the
sumptuous presbytery.
Noteworthy are 18th-century
altars in the side chapels,
designed by Giorgio Massari,
the good altarpieces by
Giovanni Martini (St. Mark,
1501) and Pellegrino da
S. Daniele (St. Joseph, 1500),
the panels by Pomponio
Amalteo (Jesus driving out
the merchants from the
Temple and Lazarus's
Resurrection, 1555) and by
Maffeo Verona (The Virgin's
Marriage and St. Joseph's
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Happy Death, early 1600s),
which were former case organ doors and are now
hung on the walls, and most
of all, in the Holy
Sacrament Chapel, the
exquisite frescoes (ca. 1725)
by Giambattista Tiepolo who
is also the artist of a small
Resurrection (1738) in
the elegant marble
altar by Giuseppe
Torretti. Tiepolo's is
also the altarpiece in
Trinity
Chapel. At the
centre of the choir is the
high altar by Giuseppe
Torretti, who also made the
spectacular wooden dossals
to the presbytery sides; the
choir vault has instead
frescoes by Lodovico
Dorigny, the author also of
the two panels on the choir
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back
walls. The
parapets of
the 16th-century
organ 'in cornu
epistolae' were
painted by G.A. Pordenone,
while the ones 'in cornu
evangeli' are the work of
G.B. Grassi and Francesco
Floreani. The chapel of
S. Nicolò (forming today the
Duomo Museum together
with another room and the
old Baptistery, containing
14th-century paintings on
wood, jewels, Beato
Bertrando's sarcophagus
and funeral array-14th cent.)
shows frescoes by Vitale da
Bologna
(St. Nicolò's funeral and
Scenes from the Saint's life)
considered the greatest
14th-century cycle in Friuli.
In the vestries are a fresco
cycle by Pietro Antonio
Novelli with scenes form the
history of the Friuli church
(1790), paintings by
Giacomo Secante
(16th cent.) and other
Friulian masters.
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| FROM UDINE TO TAGLIAMENTO RIVER
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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...go
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