DESCRIZIONE:
La chiesa di Nostra Signora del Carmine a Mogoro è un esempio affascinante di sincretismo architettonico che combina lo stile romanico e il gotico italiano.
La sua struttura, risalente al XIV secolo, comprende una navata coperta a capriate lignee e un’abside semicircolare internamente e quadrangolare esternamente.
La facciata, arricchita da elementi gotici, è suddivisa in tre parti da paraste d’angolo e lesene.
Il portale centrale è architravato con una cèntina a tutto sesto e fiancheggiato da lesene con capitelli gotici.
Sopra di esso si ammira una bifora con archi trilobati e archi ogivali.
La chiesa offre una visione suggestiva e vibrante grazie all’interazione armoniosa tra questi elementi architettonici.
NARRAZIONE:Where stylistic currents coexist in a single context, fascinating syncretisms are created, capable of adapting to the peculiarities of the contexts in which they develop. A tangible example of this tendency is represented by the simultaneous presence of the Romanesque and Italian Gothic styles, which exclude the vertical thrust typical of French architecture where they originated. The church of Nostra Signora del Carmine, in which elements belonging to the properly Romanesque style are harmoniously mixed with Gothic ones, fully reflects this cultural phenomenon.
The Church of Carmine, whose current appearance dates back to the beginning of the 14th century, has a single nave covered with wooden trusses and ending with a semicircular apse on the inside and a quadrangular one on the outside. The façade, embellished with Gothic elements, is composed of medium-sized limestone ashlars and is divided into three mirrors by corner pilasters and pilasters.
In the central mirror, there is an architraved portal with a round-arched rib, flanked by pilasters ending in Gothic capitals from which two rows of three-lobed arches, also Gothic, take off. Above this is a double lancet window with a central pilaster and rosoncino, completed by a splayed ogival arch with an eyebrow.
Three-lobed arches run along the sloping roofs, the same as the horizontal ones that flank the mullioned window and continue in the apsidal elevation. The southern side of the church is obscured by buildings of a later period where there is a bell gable, while the northern side, divided into five mirrors by pilasters, ends in the upper part with a row of Gothic small arches similar to those on the façade.
In the central mirror of the latter side is a Gothic pointed-arch portal that rests on two capitals with phytomorphic decorations, while in the side ones there are four single lancet windows with double splays.
The rear part of the church has an apse with a single lancet window that picks up on the series of three-lobed arches in the single mirror and is surmounted by an arched pediment with a circular oculus. The apse, in the centre of which is a single-lancet window, is surmounted by an arched pediment with a circular oculus
BIBLIOGRAFIA:Bibliografia e sitografia:
Robero Coroneo, Architettura romanica dalla metà del Mille al primo ‘300, collana “Storia dell’arte in Sardegna”, Nuoro, Ilisso, 1993, sch. 165;
Vittorio Angius, voce ”Mogoro”, in G. Casalis, Dizionario geografico storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di S.M. il Re di Sardegna, XX, Torino, G. Maspero, 1842, p. 419
Dionigi Scano, Storia dell’arte in Sardegna dall’XI al XIV secolo, Cagliari-Sassari, 1907, pp. 249-249
Raffaello Delogu, L’architettura del Medioevo in Sardegna, Roma, 1953, pp. 234-235
Mauro Botteri, Guida alle chiese medioevali di Sardegna, Sassari, 1978, p. 76
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