{"id":2871,"date":"2021-10-11T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/uncategorized\/church-of-st-john\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:50:24","slug":"church-of-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/uncategorized\/church-of-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of the <strong>Church of St. John<\/strong> is traced back by local historians to the 14th century (1339), but probably the first building dates back to the 12th century; it underwent some restorations in the 15th century, between 1430 and 1436, renovated and expanded in the 17th century (1631) and decorated with stuccoes on the altars in the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>scenic background of mount Cofano<\/strong>, between sky and sea, the high dome rises up, located at the intersection of the single nave of the church with the transept: the oldest entrance (eastwards) is marked by an ogival portal (14th century), with multiple archivolts, decorated with zig-zag elements and fronted by an original staircase.<\/p>\n<p>The church, today used as an <strong>auditorium<\/strong>, keeps inside some valuable works of <strong>Renaissance sculpture<\/strong> attributable to Gabriele di Battista from Lombardy, Antonino Gagini and his workshop. The most famous of the Gaginis, Antonello, was the sculptor of the elegant <strong>statue of <em>San Giovanni Evangelista<\/em><\/strong> (St. John the Evangelist, 1531), placed at the right transept, in the base of which are depicted, in relief, the martyrdom of the Saint and a person praying, perhaps the client.<\/p>\n<p>There are also displayed the remains of <strong>Medieval frescoes<\/strong> coming from the rocky church of Santa Maria Maddalena (St. Mary Magdelene); a further highlight is the decoration with stuccoes of the altars, made in the 18th century, in particular the altar of San Vito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of the Church of St. John is traced back by local historians to the 14th century (1339), but probably the first building dates back to the 12th century; it underwent some restorations in the 15th century, between 1430 and 1436, renovated and expanded in the 17th century (1631) and decorated with stuccoes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}