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With the exception of Sassari's San Nicola, the dedications to Nicholas
of Myra shown so far have been pretty clearly "romanesque". Herewith a
few notable examples with pointy forms of various sorts.
Sicily's cathedral of San Nicoḷ at Nicosia (EN; 1300-1340 with later
modifications) has a belltower whose base is a reworked Norman military
structure (a number of churches on the island have similar belltowers)
showing an ogive seemingly of Sicilian Arabic inspiration, while the
part of the tower immediately above it is a "gothic" addition from
sometime during the period 1393-1455:
http://www.iti-itas.com/galloitalico/images/Duomo_Nicosia.jpg
In the background, one can see the "gothic" main portal of this much
rebuilt church. An illustrated, Italian language discussion of this
portal by the church's current restorers is here:
http://tinyurl.com/8rabl
But most noteworthy about this church (an Italian national monument
since 1940) are the recently restored paintings, dated to the middle of
the fifteenth century, that cover the interior of its wooden roof. Some
detail views follow:
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-37-39-6532.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-37-10-9227.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-36-51-3256.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-36-25-4871.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-36-10-2819.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-35-55-6291.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/458/458-01-35-20-7018.jpg
An Italian-language site on this roof is here:
http://www.cormorano.net/nicosia/tettoligneo/index.html
Click on "Le Immagini" for a series of isolated views of (mostly) single
details, many not among the ones reproduced above.
Across the Alps, examples include Leipzig's Nikolaikirche, built
"romanesque" in 1165, rebuilt "gothic" in the fiteenth and sixteenth
centuries, and probably now best known for its being the site of
peaceful demonstrations in 1989 that helped bring an end to the
so-called German Democratic Republic:
http://www.matthiasbook.de/album/leipzig/img/021_Nikolaikirche.jpg
http://img-x.fotocommunity.com/43/1467443.jpg
http://www.meyer-greifswald.de/fotos/leipzig1/picture-0017.jpg
Frankfurt am Main's Alte Nikolaikirche (ca. 1200, rebuilt in the
fifteenth century):
http://tinyurl.com/c8ger
http://tinyurl.com/cy6o2
and, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wismar's Nikolaikirche (late fourteenth-
/ early fifteenth-century; consecrated, 1403):
http://tinyurl.com/d37bj
For those who like their flying buttresses in brick!
Further to the north, in Gotland, are the remains of Visby's former
Dominican church of St. Nicolai, built in 1230 and destroyed in 1525.
Two exterior views:
http://www.bingeby.com/bilder/visby4/vis0505_0049.jpg
http://www.smitterberg.se/Album/GoeteOhlsson/Nicolai-ruin.jpg
A few interior views:
http://www.gotmus.i.se/databaser/visby-forr/bilder-31/734.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7zuac
http://www.gotlandshistoria.com/kyrkor/nicolai.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8kzo7
Finally, a different sort pointy-ness: the probably early
thirteenth-century stave church of St. Nicholas at Eidsborg in Telemark:
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg.jpg
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg2.jpg
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg3.jpg
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg4.jpg
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg8.jpg
http://www.arild-hauge.com/arild-hauge/kirke-eidsborg9.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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