Plock Cathedral (the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Masovia), Plock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Płock Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Masovia, in Płock, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Poland, and one of the most valuable representatives of Romanesque architecture in Europe. From the antecedent Romanesque cathedral are presumably the bronze doors (now in Velikiy Novgorod), with the figurative bas-reliefs depicting the verses of the so-called "Roman Confession of Faith", and the figure of Alexander of Malonne, bishop of Płock. The doors have been made in the Magdeburg workshop about 1150. In the Płock cathedral,there is a bronze replica of the doors, made in 1980s. The bishopric in Płock was founded about 1075. A Romanesque cathedral built after 1129 by prince Bolesław III and Bishop Aleksander of Malonnewas consecrated 1144 as Blessed Virgin Mary Church. In the cathedral, there are tombs of two Polish rulers Władysław I Herman and Bolesław III Wrymouth. After a great fire in 1530, a new Renaissance temple was built (1531 - 1535) on the same place, reusing granite ashlar from the Romanesque basilica. The architects were Bernardino de Gianotis from Rome, Giovanni Cini da Siena and Philippo da Fiesole. The layout of the new cathedral had been based on the Renaissance basilicas of Rome (Sant'Agostino, Santa Maria del Popolo); however the external architecture remains in the style of North Italian brick churches, more similar to local late Gothic ones Masovia, and may be the result of rebuilding about 1560 by Giovanni Battista of Venice, who added a spacious choir and two western towers. (source: Wikipedia)
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Location: Plock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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