点评:The current Sanctuary was built “over and around the original church of Our Lady of the Olive Tree and completed in 1165, so there remain two churches, one inside the other, the first still serving as an underground choir and the second as an upper choir”.
The paint of Mary with the Baby , on the main altar of the lower church , is an icon painted on canvas fixed to a panel, in dark colors on a gold background, which represents the Madonna with a brown face, with the Child on her left arm, in an affectionate and maternal attitude. The style seems Greek, both because of the Greek custom of placing the Child on the left, and because in the early times in Liguria it was the Greeks who painted, on a gold background. The painting, according to legend, was found under an olive tree in 936.
Over the centuries, the Sanctuary, the oldest in the Chiavari area, was restored and the underground Chapel and the choir were enriched with precious marbles.
The abundance and variety of marbles, in wonderful harmony, represent the characteristic of the church, which has a single nave with many decorations , statues, frescoes and paintings
翻译:目前的圣殿建于“橄榄树圣母原教堂上方和周围,于 1165 年完工,因此仍保留着两座教堂,一座在另一座内,第一座仍用作地下唱诗班,第二座用作上层唱诗班”。
下层教堂主祭坛上的圣母怀抱圣婴画作是一幅固定在面板上的画布上的圣像,以深色在金色背景上,描绘了棕色脸庞的圣母,圣婴在她的左臂上,表现出深情和母性的姿态。这种风格似乎是希腊的,这既是因为希腊人习惯将圣婴放在左边,也是因为在早期利古里亚,希腊人在金色背景上作画。根据传说,这幅画于 936 年在一棵橄榄树下被发现。
几个世纪以来,基亚瓦里地区最古老的圣殿得到了修复,地下教堂和唱诗班也用珍贵的大理石装饰。
大理石的丰富性和多样性,以及奇妙的和谐性,代表了教堂的特色,教堂只有一个中殿,里面有许多装饰品、雕像、壁画和绘画