Potenza Cathedral

The Cathedral of San Gerardo is the primary church or duomo of the metropolis of Potenza, capital of the province of the same call, and of the area of Basilicata, Italy. A temple at the web page, committed to the Virgin of the Assumption, possibly dated to the 5th or 6th century, while it changed into supposedly founded by Saint Orontes of Lecce. A new church committed to St Gerardo Della Porte, who became customer of the city and whose relics are sheltered here, turned into constructed among the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, below the patronage of the bishop Bartolommeo 1197 to 1206.

The five tale stone belltower from this church, attributed to designs through Sarolo di Muro Lucano, nonetheless exists. The gift church is especially because of a reconstruction during 1783 to 1799 in neoclassical fashion with a layout by way of Antonio Margi, a pupil of Luigi Vanvitelli. Since the church has required maintenance after diverse earthquakes and a bombardment in 1943. The ceilings and the apse have a complicated application of frescoes painted in the 20th century. The ceiling became painted 1933 to 1934 from the facade to the presbytery with scenes from the old to New Testament by using the painter Mario Prayer.