Duomo Concattedrale di San Marco

San Marco, Pordenone's co-cathedral, brings together medieval architecture and Renaissance art. Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis, known as il Pordenone, is represented by the Madonna della Misericordia and frescoes associated with the church's octagonal pillar.

Why it matters

The church's separation from the mother parish of Torre before 1278 belongs to Pordenone's development as an independent urban community. Later rebuilding and artistic commissions made San Marco a focus of the city's religious and civic identity.

What to notice

Giovanni Antonio Pilacorte carved the portal of 1511 and contributed the baptismal font and holy-water stoup. Il Pordenone's Madonna della Misericordia dates from 1515–1516. The pillar bears images of the Madonna and Child, Saint Erasmus and Saint Roch; the last has traditionally been interpreted as including the painter's self-portrait. Francesco Lazzari's nineteenth-century facade scheme survives only in its lower elements.

Context and history

A fourteenth-century enlargement created a new eastern section without completing the entire projected church. Later chapels and eighteenth-century alterations changed the interior further. Consolidation after the 1976 earthquake revealed older fresco layers, adding to the evidence for a building repeatedly adapted over the centuries.