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Pop.: 1,758
Area: 28,82 sq. km, 226 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Molevana, Toppo, Usago, Zancan
Town Hall: Piazza XX Settembre, 33 - 33090 Travesio
Phone.: 0427.90235 Fax: 0427.907985
www.comune.travesio.pn.it
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The choir in San Pietro
Apostolo houses the most
articulated cycle of frescoes by
Pordenone in Friuli, who
decorated the vault (St. Peter's
Assumption), side webs (Episodes from the
Old Testament, putti, satyrs and vegetation)
and lunettes (Stories of St. Peter)
in about 1516 and the walls (right to left:
Saul's Conversion, St. Paul's Beheading,
Wedding at Cana, Adoration of the Magi),
the window splays (putti, satyrs and busts
of female Saints) and the apse arch
intrados (SS. Rocco and Sebastian,
cardinal and theological Virtues)
between 1525 and 1526.
The works show the painter's stylistic
evolution who more and more adds
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plasticity in Michelangelo's style to a kind
of painting still linked to Venetian
chromaticity. G. A.
Pilacorte has left a baptismal font
(1490 ca.) with classicizing floral
decorations on the basin typical of the
author's production, with putti musicians
on the shaft. Pilacorte also made the
vestry portal (formerly on the façade),
dated 1484, dominated by Annunciation
and Holy Father.
Above it is a Virgin with Child and
SS. Sebastian, Rocco and
Antonio Abate (1537) by
P. Amalteo, who shows his
master Pordenone's
influence in the landscape
and the figure of
San Rocco in the
foreground.
At Travesio Pilacorte's
and Amalteo's works are
found respectively in the
church of Madonna del
latte at Zancan
(portal with Virgin of milk
and cherubs' winged
heads- end of
15th century) and in
the church of
San Tommaso at Usago
(Incredulity of
St. Thomas, 1740s).
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While the Maniago area has been
marked by the century-old tradition of
knife makers, that has provided the
necessary support to its industrial
growth, Spilimbergo has
had a similar
experience
in the field of
mosaic
creation, as
the local
Mosaic School has
worked for decades at
the highest levels, also
obtaining important
international orders. But
Spilimbergo is...go
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