Cartagloria

The Cartegloria consists of embossed lamina on a wooden support; a mixed bouquet design adorned with a rhythmic tangle of leafy foliage. According to historian Barin, the name "altar card" and the oldest version, "secret chart", are improper. A single chart with the incipit of the gospel of St. John was in use towards the end of the seventeenth century. It was placed at the foot of the cross, as S. Carlo Borromeo described "late aliquanto amplius pateat quam longe". The custom to make the series of three that began to call itself cartegloria dates back to the first half of the eighteenth century. The smaller ones contained in the Cornu Evangelii, the above mentioned incipit, Cornus Epistolae, the Psalms and sometimes also the prayer of the infusion. The greatest reported, twelve, sometimes fourteen, orations began with the glory from which they derive their name (see Argenti in Basilicata 1994, pp. 104-105). At the bottom of the central altar card, a triad of winged cherub heads surround two volute joints through a shell. At the top, the Trinity, with the figures of the Risen Christ, embraced at the cross circumscribed by a rays with long and short alternate beams, the God blessing Father, and among them, the dove of the Holy Ghost, is represented. On the socket, the inscription appears "SUB ADMINIST: NO R. / D. ANGEL CRISTAL VITI". On the right foot are stamped the NAP art stamp crowned with the figures 742, indicating the year of stamping N * A / C Consular Mark of Nicola Avitabile, console over the years 1712, 1717, 1722, 1726 and that of the Neapolitan propellant Ignazio Nasta, an artist documented from 1725 to 1739 . At the top of the small cartegloria, a lily shaped cross overhangs a choir of three cherub heads. At the base of each one reads the consular stamp of Nicola Avitabile and the mark of Ignazio Nasta argentiere. The stamp of art, although present, is not clearly legible (Catello, 1996, p.31; p.90; pp. 16-17). Within the Register of the Assumption no. 156 concerning the years 1734 - 1745, in the results of 1741 between the cc. 209 v. and 210 r., an unnumbered insert of spending notes was made in favour of Ignazio Nasta, for artefacts commissioned by Canon D. Donato Terlizzi of Castellaneta. Among these works may or may be included the charts discussed here.