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The
Right Aisle of the Dome is composed from seven altars, with
statues in
white
marble that reproduce the ancient "Apostolate"
of the Montòrsoli, after
the sixth altar it's opened
the portal that
introduces to
the
Treasure.
Ordered
in four rooms the Treasure of the Dome has an expositive space of approximately 300 m2 distributed on
two levels, it
receives beyond 400 works between it decreases to us, monstrances,
candelabrums, frontals of altar, ciboria, reliquary vases,
tunics, mitres, thuribles, shrines etc.
The
jobs of arrangement of the premises have had to the architect La
Spina.
FIRST ROOM
Monstrance in
silver of Francesco Bruno - sec. XVII
Two angels kneeling, with pelican to the center, they
support the radiant crown.
The receptacle is decorated by a double frame of diamonds to
rose
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In the glass show-case of
the First room are
guarded it tools and church furnishingses, precious jobs of
goldsmith's art
and refined art of the silk, workings these typical ones of an
extraordinary messinese handicraft, to Messina operated for centuries
generations of famous artists, credit to you from the prestigious
"consulate of the silk" diffused their products of highest
level
not
only in Sicily.. Despite
the serious losses of work of art because of natural and war
events, an artistic patrimony of relief is to the Treasure
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Numerous
they are the exposed more ancient works in the Second room, between these a
reliquary, the " Pigna " of
crystal of rocca that it rests on one sheet of silver recorded to the
burin, probably of the century X. Draft of a work very valuable, the crystal would be the part of one lamp worked from skilled workers sicilian-arabs used in origin like lamp of the Nail head of the
Sacrament and then used like reliquary from procession for the
sacred hat of the Madonna.
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The
reliquiario of S. Augusto is a high vase-arm 71 cm that rests on
one octagonal base, is decorated of candlestick leaves on the eight
faces recorded to burin. The hand supports a shell on which a teca is
raised that it ends to covered cuspid of perline and enamels.
Of
the
century
XII the arm-reliquary of Saint Marziano to realize
from English bishop Riccardo Palmer, worked to jolt and chisel; one
cross astylar of XIII the century in silver from the iconography
byzantine; a monstrance in gold of XIII the century; two decrease us
of silver and enamels of Limoges of XIV the century; great artistic
relief covers the reliquiario of the Hat of the Madonna of the Letter
on silver base golden of XIV the century; a wooden Crucifix of
late the four hundred coming from from the Church of Saint Maria of
the Mercè to the Tirone.
Between
the works of figurative art to signal the two paintings on table, the
Madonna of the Graffeo of XIII the century and the Madonna of the
Letter of XVI the century; remarkable the representing Leggio in
cinquecentesco the Aquila di San Giovanni and used bronze to the
inside of the same Cathedral dinanzi to the Greater Altar.
Present
in the Third room the greater part of the going back works
to the 1600's and the 1700's, between these, remarkable the
"Manta d' Oro", that is, the covering of the picture of
the Madonna of the Letter, in gold cesellato from Innocenzo Mangani
(1668) and then enriched from "former ballot" of other
precious stones;
the
altar frontal of altar in silver and branch golden worked from Peter
and Francisco Juvara in 1701; one statue in representing silver
Saint Rosalia donated from the Common one of Palermo in 1673.
Fine
cesellato from f.lli the Juvara the "Vascelluzzo" , a
small boat vessel adorned with grain ears, in hurled silver, comes
carried in processione the day of the Corpus Dominions. The
legendary arrival to Messina remembers us, for same intercession of
the Madonna of the Letter, of a boat vessel loaded with grain during
the war of Vespri (1282), when the population was by now to the
extreme of the forces for the scarcity that plagued it.
Folklore
and Leggends Messinese
They
make beautiful extension, always in Third Knows it, a prestigious
golden silver goblet with candelabri and reliefs 1695 of Filippo
Juvara six of silver always hurled and cesellato of Filippo Iuvara of
1698; of Peter Juvara the reliquary of Saint Peter of XVII the
century; four go of silver and golden branch of XVII the century.
Other work of relief is "Launches it of the Vergine", in
silver hurled of XVIII the century, door in procession the 3 june,
day of the Madonna of the Letter.
In
the Quarter It knows are exposed it works of the XIX and XX
century, between these are from mentioning: the goblet donated from
Pope John Paul II in occasion of the canonization happened in
the 1988 to Messina di
Smeralda
Calafato,
Saint
Eustochia
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one
representing statue the Christ Revived in silver and golden silver of
XIX the century; leggio of altar in golden silver representing an
Immaculate one of XIX the century; a ostensorio in representing silver
the Triumph of the Faith always of XIX the century.
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