Saint Patrik's Well

It was 1527 when the renowned architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger embarked on the daring design of the deepest well in history. The work was commissioned by Pope Clement VII, fleeing the Sack of Rome in 1527, to supply the city of Orvieto with water in the event of a siege. However, Sangallo thought of the construction of the Pozzo not only in practical but also in sapiential terms...
Under the Patronage of the Municipality of Orvieto

Features

• Dimensions 24x21 cm
• Cover with flaps
• Pages 179
• Photos by Patrick Nicholas
• Weight gr. 0.788

Edited by Del Sole Fabio Massimo and Patrizia Pelorosso

Written contributions: Massimo Jevolella, Laura Ricci, Marco Guzzi, Mariangela Severi, Raffaele Davanzo

Cover price Euro 20.00 

Abstract
                                        
Already at the beginning of the 17th century, the Pozzo della Rocca, later called "San Patrizio" (Saint Patrick's Well), consolidated its fame alongside that of the Duomo, deservedly becoming one of the "Three Wonders of the Illustrious City of Orvieto" (Carraini,1616).

A daring work, the ingenuity of its architect, the story of popes, saints and distant lands, of mysterious journeys to the Afterlife or the abysses of the human unconscious.... "a profound and esoteric atmosphere with remarkable symbolic dimensions, the exciting experience of feeling immersed in the soul of the world" (Raffaele Davanzo).

Reviews

'Poly-disciplinary and poly-dialectical book! New ideas, research and meanings, especially on symbols, architecture and the silent link with Leonardo da Vinci'.

Raffaele Davanzo
Historical Artistic Institute of Orvieto