Abruzzo L'Aquila Rosciolo dei Marsi (environs) S. Maria in Valle Porclaneta. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Exterior views of this former Benedictine abbey church include an inscribed plaque before the narthex; a polygonal apse with foliate sculptural details (13th century); and windows. Interior views include the tomb of Mater Niccolo and damaged frescoes (13th-16th centuries), but most coverage is of the architectural sculpture. The choir screen (mid 12th-13th centuries) is decorated with seraphim, busts of apostles in relief, foliate forms, rosettes, eagles, a lion, dragon, griffin, acanthus molding
Abruzzo L'Aquila Rosciolo dei Marsi (environs) S. Maria in Valle Porclaneta. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Exterior views of this former Benedictine abbey church include an inscribed plaque before the narthex; a polygonal apse with foliate sculptural details (13th century); and windows. Interior views include the tomb of Mater Niccolo and damaged frescoes (13th-16th centuries), but most coverage is of the architectural sculpture. The choir screen (mid 12th-13th centuries) is decorated with seraphim, busts of apostles in relief, foliate forms, rosettes, eagles, a lion, dragon, griffin, acanthus molding and vine scroll. The pulpit decoration consists of foliage inhabited by bearded or nude men, griffins or beasts as well as narrative relief sculpture such as Jonah coughed up by a whale and Jonah sitting under a gourd tree. The ciborium, piers and impost blocks are also decorated with figures, rosettes, dentils, quadrupeds and foliage. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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