Opera del Duomo
The majestic tiled front facades divided into three parts
by pilaster strips
that suggest the inner space. The plastic and chromatic
animation
of spiral pillars, in addition to mullioned windows and
hanging arches - the porch
with lion supports, the re-used materials, metopes, pediments
and cusps.
Wandering here and there - among sinopias and Saints with
grim eyes,
Pantocrators, altarpieces depicting brutally murdered
martyrs,
phytomorphic mouldings, animal protomes, strips, spirals,
lozenges,
marble plinths, epigraphes, Triumphant Crucifix -
exhales the wisdom hidden by the buttresses, the
calculated division of labor
and, sine nomine, the indigenous pieceworkers or
the craftsmen come from far-flung lands
suspended in the void between collapses, creaking of
winches, timber beams
and heavy sandstone blocks
applying mortar, building pillars, cutting stones,
carrying beams,
casting new bells, grabbing drills, constructing walls to
erect,
ad perpetuam rei memoriam,
the miscellaneous sediments of collective genius.