page_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Ivrea
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Ivrea / Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Giacomino di Ivrea, Saint Christopher and St. Anthony Abbot, fresco of the Cathedral crypt, ca. 1426, Ivrea, Duomo
context_page_description: The Italian Catholic Diocese of Ivrea is in Piedmont. For a time the diocese included the territory which had once been the diocese of Aosta, suppressed in 1803 but restored in 1817. Up until 1517 Ivrea was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan; it is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin.
context_section_description: The cathedral is built on the site of a first century Roman temple. Between the fourth and fifth century, a Christian church was constructed in the design of a Roman basilica. In the eleventh century, Bishop Warmondo, who was named bishop by Emperor Otto III, enlarged the structure in the Romanesque style. Warmondo also established a scriptorium. As the apse and other portions of Warmondo's work remains, the cathedral constitutes an important example of Romanesque architecture in the Canavese.
  The campanili are attributed to the early 11th century, though the upper parts which house the bells were not completed until two hundred years later. The upper portions of the bell towers, that may have collapsed during the 1117 Verona earthquake, began to be rebuilt in the 12th century.
  In 1516 Bishop Bonafacio Ferrero replaced the Romanesque façade with a Bramante-style portico. Bishop Ottavio Pocchettini (1824–1837) later commissioned architect Giuseppe Martinez to remodel the building in Late Baroque style. The Bramante-style portico was reworked into a Palladian style in 1854.
caption: St. Christopher and St. Anthony the Abbot, Giacomo of Ivrea c. 1426
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