Prata di Pordenone

The parish church of Prata, part of the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone, is a building built, or rather enlarged, in 1772, with a neoclassical facade marked by four semi-columns with Ionic capitals.

The latter was a Neapolitan painter who, having come young in Venice, was among the protagonists of Rococò with Sebastiano Ricci and Gian Domenico Pellegrini: in this 1740 painting, the wide and open phrasing is highlighted, together with the indeterminacy of the contours and the fluffiness of the color.

Important historical construction, the ancient Temple of S. Giovanni dei Cavalieri, dating back to the fourteenth century, contains precious evidence of Gothic sculpture in Friuli, such as the fourteenth-century tomb seals with the representation of the presbyters Giacomo da Prata (1330) and Bonaccorso ( 1337), the ark of Pileo da Prata (1325) and above all those of Nicolò da Prata and Caterina di Castrucco (1344), enriched by the bas-relief figures of the Madonna and Child and the Saints Francesco and Giovanni Battista, and considered the work of a collaborator of the Venetian sculptor Andriolo de Santi.

The Church of Saints Simon and Judas, mentioned in the testament of Guecello II di Prata on 7 August 1262, preserves in the apse the memory of the Renaissance decoration: frescoes with the Doctors of the Church in the sails of the vaults and a Crucifixion on the back wall, and then the Sacrifice of Cain and Abel and the Annunciation in the triumphal arch and Saints in the under arch attributable to the painter Pietro Gorizio and datable to 1498.

Still in Prata, in a road capital in front of Palazzo Brunetta, a Madonna with Child painted by Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo around 1500.

The capitello, similar to a wayside shrine, is what remains of the small apse of a larger oratory, which, according to some oral sources, had a gabled facade surmounted by a single-hole bell tower.

The parish church