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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)
http://www.itccarli.it/immagini/cmsilv.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/ytvlbx
http://www.carbonaio.it/immagini%20trieste%20-%20citt%E0%2021.htm
2) The originally late tenth-century church of San Silvestro at Alatri (FR) in southern Lazio, enlarged in 1331 and frescoed then and later:
Illustrated, Italian-language account:
http://tinyurl.com/yq5ox5
Facade view:
http://tinyurl.com/yv8gzj
3) The originally eleventh-century abbey church of San Silvestro at Collepino di Spello (PG) in Umbria:
http://tinyurl.com/2628kn
An English-language account occurs about halfway down the page here:
http://www.aaanetserv.com/turismo/umbria/it_benedettino_4.html
4) 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.emmeti.it/Welcome/Emilia/ProvModena/Nonantola/
http://tinyurl.com/er2eg
http://www.mondimedievali.net/Edifici/Emilia/images/nonantol01.jpg
http://www.tibethouse.net/celebrazioni/immagini/nonantola_big.jpg
A view of the rear prior to restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/2pk8hl
Two pages of black-and-white views from the Courtauld, mostly details of the famous sculptures on the portal, are here:
http://tinyurl.com/7snpg
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
5) 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
6) The twelfth-century fortified église Saint-Sylvestre de Montcalmès (Saint-Sylvestre-des-Brousses) in Puéchabon (Hérault), expandable views here:
http://route-romane.net/default.php?gzev=st_bk_269
and here (at foot):
http://tinyurl.com/yv8yh3
7) 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
8) The originally late thirteenth-century St. Sylvesterkirche in Quakenbrück (Kr. Osnabrück) in Niedersachsen with a later fifteenth-century choir (completed by 1470)
Illustrated, German-language account:
http://tinyurl.com/2zchjp
Exterior:
http://tinyurl.com/2ed7l4
http://tinyurl.com/yr24de
Interior (first view shows a rood screen with a cross said to be from the early fourteenth century):
http://www.kg-sylvester.de/images/geschichte/1.jpg
http://www.kg-sylvester.de/images/geschichte/2.jpg
9) 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://tinyurl.com/37kjue
Other views (also expandable) are on p. 1 here, plus several of apse frescoes on p. 3:
http://tinyurl.com/yezf4g
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post lightly revised and with additional images)
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