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In celebration of pope St. Sylvester, herewith a look at a few churches not in Rome that are dedicated to him:
1) S.'s partly ninth-century church of San Silvestro in Trieste (Waldensian since 1927).
English-language account:
http://triesteit.ags.myareaguide.com/index.html?detailID=85404&SSC=160
Some views:
http://www.itccarli.it/immagini/cmsilv.jpg
http://www.carbonaio.it/immagini%20trieste%20-%20citt%E0%2021.htm
2) The eleventh-century abbey church of San Silvestro at Collepino di Spello (PG) in Umbria. Visuals are hard to find, but there's an exterior view on this Italian-language page:
http://www.itinerari.umbria2000.it/?idCont=206345
An interior view (not awfully clear) and an interesting English-language account occur about halfway down the page here:
http://www.aaanetserv.com/turismo/umbria/it_benedettino_4.html
3) A major monument to S. is the church of what until its suppression in 1769 was his abbey at Nonantola (MO) in Emilia just north of the kingdom of Italy's border with the papal state. One of medieval Italy's great monasteries, the abbey was founded in the mid-eighth century by a brother-in-law of the Lombard king Aistulf and housed remains of two sainted popes, S. (relics are said to have been presented by pope Stephen II) and Adrian III (died here in 885). In 1117, the church was severely damaged by an earthquake; what one sees today is an imaginative modern restoration (1913-21) of the structure as rebuilt in the twelfth century plus its better preserved eleventh-century crypt. A few views in color follow:
http://www.abbazia-nonantola.net/pagine/percorsi.html
http://tinyurl.com/er2eg
http://www.mondimedievali.net/Edifici/Emilia/images/nonantol01.jpg
http://www.youritaly.com/comuni/comune_nonantola_36027.html
http://www.tibethouse.net/celebrazioni/immagini/nonantola_big.jpg
Two pages of black-and-white views from the Courtauld, mostly details of the famous sculptures on the portal, are here:
http://tinyurl.com/7snpgColor again: the Italia nell'Arte Medievale page on the abbey
Color again: the Italia nell'Arte Medievale site's two pages on the abbey, one with exterior views of the church (most are expandable) :
http://tinyurl.com/yzz8pu
and one with expandable views of capitals in the crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/ya52e4
4) San Silvestro at Vicenza (VI) in the Veneto. The abbey church of a dependency of Nonantola, this building was consecrated in 1128 and expanded in about 1200. It was reworked in the sixteenth century, lost its apses in the seventeenth, and was secularized in the early nineteenth, when the property became a military barracks. The already dilapidated church was badly damaged by bombing in World War II. An initial phase of reconstruction took place in the 1950s and another campaign ended in 2003. It is now used as an exhibition gallery by the diocese of Vicenza's Associazione artisti per l'arte sacra. Two views:
http://tinyurl.com/uxjmt
http://tinyurl.com/yyh7bv
5) The originally late twelfth-century church of San Silvestro at Bevagna (PG) in Umbria (portal dated 1195), subsequently modified. It was restored to its present appearance in in 1953/54. Some exterior views:
http://tinyurl.com/yzuf7t
http://www.jappita.com/images/upload/bevagna_480.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/ddx9w
Exterior and interior views:
http://www.greengrape.net/mori/bevagna/index_02.html
There are older black-and-white views, including some of the interior, here:
http://tinyurl.com/tmvvj
Another interior view:
http://www.surfingitaly.com/images/bevagna2.jpg
6) The originally fourteenth-century church of San Silvestro at L'Aquila (AQ) in Abruzzo. Five expandable views are here (about halfway down the page):
http://www.medioevo.org/artemedievale/Pages/Abruzzo/AquilaChieseMinori.html
Other views (also expandable) are on p. 1 here, plus several of apse frescoes on p. 3:
http://tinyurl.com/yezf4g
Best,
John Dillon
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