Descrizione
It is therefore not explained where the title to S. Candido derives from, which is still solemnly celebrated on May 23, the anniversary of this saint. The interior of the church is dominated by the presence of three stylistically very different altars. The seventeenth-century high altar is located in a quadrangular niche and consists of a painted wooden dossal with a convex shape and harmoniously articulated in large scrolls. In it there is a late seventeenth-century canvas depicting the Holy Family and St. Florian in the act of putting out a fire that is red in the background. On the left wall is the altar from the church of S Rocco a Zuel: it is a more rigidly geometric and essential in decoration, but which houses an interesting seventeenth-century altarpiece of the Venetian school, depicting St. John the Baptist, in which there are no echoes of the famous painting, with the same subject, by Tiziano Vecellio preserved in the galleries of the Academy of Venice. The last image of S. Floriano is visible in the canvas placed in the counter-façade above the glass compass: the Holy Family and Saints are depicted, among which we note the inevitable S. Floriano, S. Antonio Abate and S. Gerolamo . The work is attributed to Pietro Longhi (1701-1785) On the left wall there is one of the artistic jewels of Cortina d'Ampezzo and the wooden sculpture of the early sixteenth century: the Flügelaltar di Santa Caterina, coming from the church of the same name in Cortina, today disappearance. The Flügelaltar, altarpiece with revolving doors, is a real artistic genre that develops with great success in the German area since the beginning of the 1300s and brings together the different artistic techniques of wood decoration: sculpture in the round, decoration with relief, painting, gilding and architectural composition. This Flügelaltar is the work of Michael Parth born and lived in Bressanone from 1475 to 1551 and a pupil of the famous Pusterese artist Michael Pacher who died in Bressanone in 1498. The altar presents an articulated iconographic program consisting of fourteen main figures completed by phytomorphic decorations in spirals that they make the whole even more precious. With closed doors are depicted: in the elevation, S. Giovanni Evangelista with the golden chalice, and S. Giuda Taddeo, in the predella the scene of the Annunciation between Saints Rocco and Sebastian. With the doors open, the predella instead presents the scene with figures in the round of the martyrdom of St. Catherine and two saints who could be Nicolò and Maddalena, in the elevation the Saints Peter and Paul are in the doors, while in the central triptych we find St. Catherine enthroned between S. Giovanni Battista and S. Matteo.
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