Abruzzo L'Aquila Rosciolo dei Marsi environs S. Maria in Valle Porclaneta, this is my Italy, the italian country of visual history, Exterior views of this former Benedictine abbey church include an inscribed plaque before the narthex a polygonal apse with foliate sculptural details 13th century and windows. Interior views include the tomb of Mater Niccolo and damaged frescoes 13th-16th centuries, but most coverage is of the architectural sculpture. The choir screen mid 12th-13th centuries is decorated with seraphim, busts of apostles in relief, foliate forms, rosettes, eagles, a lion, dragon, griffin, acanthus molding and vine scroll. The pulpit decoration consists of foliage inhabited by bearded or nude men, griffins or beasts as well as narrative relief sculpture such as Jonah coughed up by a whale and Jonah sitting under a gourd tree. The ciborium, piers and impost blocks are also decorated with figures, rosettes, dentils, quadrupeds and foliage.
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