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English: Milan Cathedral at night.
Italiano: Duomo di Milano.
Photo: April 2012.
Author: Fernando García.
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English: The Duomo di Milano is the Cathedral Church of Milan, in Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is located on the main square (Piazza Duomo di Milano) in the centre of the city. Dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente (Saint Mary Nascent), it is the Seat of the Archbishop of Milan. The Gothic Cathedral took five centuries to complete. It is the largest Gothic Cathedral and the second largest Catholic Cathedral in the world.
Italiano: Il Duomo di Milano, monumento simbolo del capoluogo lombardo, è dedicato a Santa Maria Nascente ed è situato nell'omonima piazza nel centro della città.
עברית: קתדרלת מילאנו הידועה כדואומו היא קתדרלה גו
The Cathedral was built over several hundred years, in a number of contrasting styles, and the quality of the workmanship varies markedly. Reactions to it have ranged from admiration to disfavour. The Guida d’Italia: Milano 1998 (Touring Club Editore, p. 154) points out that the early Romantics tended to praise it in “the first intense enthusiasms for Gothic.” As the Gothic Revival brought in a purer taste, condemnation was often equally intense.
John Ruskin commented acidly that the Cathedral steals "from every style in the world: And every style spoiled. The Cathedral is a mixture of Perpendicular with Flamboyant, the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on a pure, but a very early penetrative, Gothic . . . The rest of the architecture, amongst which this curious Flamboyant is set, is Perpendicular with horizontal bars across: And with the most detestable crocketing, utterly vile. Not a ray of invention in a single form . . . Finally, the statues all over are of the worst possible, common stonemason's yard, species, and look pinned on for show. The only redeeming character, about the whole, being the frequent use of the sharp gable . . . which gives lightness, and the crowding of the spiry pinnacles into the sky.” (Notebooks[M.6L]). The plastered Ceiling, painted to imitate elaborate tracery carved in stone, particularly aroused his contempt as a “gross degradation”.
While appreciating the force of Ruskin’s criticisms, Henry James was more appreciative: “A structure, not supremely interesting, not logical, not . . . commandingly beautiful, but grandly curious and superbly rich . . . If it had no other distinction, it would still have that of impressive, immeasurable achievement . . . a supreme embodiment of vigorous effort.”
English: Milan Cathedral at night.
Italiano: Milano - Duomo.
Photo: March 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Geobia.
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At the left of the Altar is located the most famous statue of all the Cathedral, the "San Bartolomeo Flayed" (1562), by Marco d'Agrate. The Saint shows the leather thrown over his shoulders like a stole;
The Archbishop Alberto da Intimiano's sarcophagus, which is overlooked by a Crucifix in copper laminae (a replica);
The sarcophagi of the Archbishops Ottone Visconti and Giovanni Visconti, created by a Campionese Master in the 14th-Century;
The sarcophagus of Marco Carelli, who donated 35,000 ducati to accelerate the construction of the Cathedral;
The three magnificent Altars, by Pellegrino Pellegrini, which include the notable Federico Zuccari's "Visit of Saint Peter to Saint Agatha jailed";
English: Plate, celebrating the laying of the first stone in 1386.
Italiano: Lapide dentro il Duomo che commemora l'inizio della costruzione, nel 1386.
This File: 13 May 2005.
Author: Author: Marco Bonavoglia.
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In the Right Transept, the Monument to Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano, called "Medeghino", by Leone Leoni, and the adjacent Renaissance marble Altar, decorated with gilt bronze statues;
The Presbytery is a Late-Renaissance masterpiece, composing a Choir, a Temple by Pellegrini, two Pulpits with giant atlantes covered in copper and bronze, and two large Organs. Around the Choir, the two Sacristies' Portals, some frescoes and a 15th-Century statue of Pope Martin V, by Jacopino da Tradate, can be seen;
A view at dusk of the facade (and part of the South side)
of Milan Cathedral, Italy. (OM-4/HP5.)
Photo: November 2001.
Source: Own work.
Author: Ian Spackman.
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The Transepts house the Trivulzio Candelabrum, which is in two pieces. The Base (attributed to Nicolas of Verdun, 12th-Century), characterised by a fantastic ensemble of vines, vegetables and imaginary animals; and the Stem, of the Mid-16th-Century;
In the Left Aisle, the Arcimboldi Monument, by Alessi, and Romanesque figures, depicting the Apostles, in red marble, and the neo-Classic Baptistry, by Pellegrini;
English: Piazza Duomo, in Milan, during Christmas holidays 2008.
On the left, a Christmas Tree in front of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
Italiano: Piazza Duomo a Milano durante le feste natalizie del 2008.
Sulla sinistra l'albero.
Photo: 7 December 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Goldmund100.
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A small red light bulb, in the Dome above the Apse, marks the spot where one of the Nails, reputedly from the Crucifixion of Christ, has been placed. The Holy Nail is retrieved and exposed to the public every year, during a celebration known as the Rite of the Nivola;
In November–December, in the days surrounding the birthdate of Saint Charles Borromeo, a series of large canvasses, the Quadroni, are exhibited along the Nave;
The Five-Manual, 225-Rank, Pipe-Organ, built jointly by the Tamburini and Mascioni Italian organbuilding firms, on Mussolini's command, is currently the largest Organ in all of Italy.
PART FIVE FOLLOWS.
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