Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi

Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi
Italy, Bologna
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Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi

Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi
Italy, Bologna
Santa Maria dei Servi is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bologna, Italy. A fine example of Gothic architecture.
It was founded in 1346 as a community church of the Order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Servite Order). In the 20th century, Pope Pius XII granted the church the status of a "basilica".
The building of the basilica in the projection has the shape of a Latin cross 100 meters long and 20 meters wide. It was designed in the Gothic style with lancet arches around the perimeter.
Outwardly, the church is very simple, brick, without decoration. The facade, built in several stages, has never been decorated.
A notable feature of the church is its courtyard or atrium. This is a feature that was common in early Christian churches, of which very few survive. One of these is the earlier St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In the case of Santa Maria dei Servi, this is a consequence of when its atrium was built back in the 16th century.
It appears to have been modeled after the arcade built by Brunelleschi at the Hospital for the Innocents (Ospedale degli Innocenti) in Florence.
The area in front of the basilica was rather small, which made it possible to build a wide arcade around it, which covers the entire area without interruption. The arcade is closed on one side by monastic buildings, and on the other two sides it opens onto the street and runs along the entire left side of the building. Where the arcade meets the façade, it forms a "porch" or wide portico of five arches that extends across the façade of the church. The arcade is adorned with a decorative cornice, and the round stucco on the lintels echoes the eye window on the façade.
Many works of art have been preserved in the basilica, including the Holy Virgin enthroned by Cimabue, the remains of 14th-century frescoes by Vitale da Bologna and Lippo di Dalmasio, paintings by Innocenzo da Imola and Francesco Albani, and a marble altarpiece of the Annunciation of Our Lady (1558) by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, student of Michelangelo.
The architectural complex has a bell tower about 52 meters high.
The church also has a well-known organ made in 1967 and operated mechanically.

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The brothers of the Order of the Servants of Mary came to Bologna from Florence and in 1233 they settled at Borgo San P'etro. Here the stench woke up the church, in which they roamed and practiced until 1345, when Taddeo Pepoli, lord of Bologna, having presented them with a great plot of land, where the chapel stood. On the first leaf fall of the same fate, the servitudes passed from the new Volodinnya, and from the first core, a new monastery and a new church were born. Santa Maria de Servi Bula was consecrated under the name of Navita della Virgina, perhaps thirty years later: there are three naves, a square plan and even more compact.
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