Site Details
Amalfi, Cathedral (Sant'Andrea)
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| Title (variant) | Sant'Andrea |
| Description | The first cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption and to the saints Cosmas and Damian, and then to the Crucifix, was founded at the end of the tenth century on the site of an Early Christian basilica. It originally had a nave and two aisles (one of them pulled down in the thirteenth century) divided by columns, a tribune and a wooden ceiling. A new cathedral was built next to the older basilica from the mid eleventh century until about the end of the twelfth. Bronze doors from Constantinople donated ca. 1065 by Pantaleone di Maurone Comite. The cathedral was extensively refurbished and enlarged with the addition of the transept and the crypt during the thirteenth century, after the arrival of the relics of St. Andrew, acquired in Constantinople by cardinal Pietro Capuano. At this time were also built the so-called Chiostro del Paradiso (Cloister of Paradise) featuring interlaced arches, and a new bell tower which includes at the top four small towers of Islamic architectural type and is adorned with arches and covered with majolica tiles. Fresco decorations in the Basilica of the Crucifix and in the cloister. Fourteenth-century caryatid virtues from the dismantled tomb of cardinal Capuano in the cathedral. |
| Type | Cathedral |
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| Notes | The Basilica of the Crucifix presently houses a museum. |