Friday, 28 June 2024

Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica Of The Nativity Of Saint Mary, Milan. Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Di Santi Maria Nascente, Milano. (Part Ten).



English: Milan Cathedral.
Italiano: Milano - Duomo.
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Duomo of Milan.
The Church That Took 600 Years To Finish.
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Milan Cathedral at night.
Photo: 1 May 2011.
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Author: 7777777kz
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The Cathedral’s five broad Naves, divided by forty Pillars, are reflected in the hierarchic openings of the façade. Even the Transepts have Aisles. The Nave Columns are twenty-four metres (80 ft) high, and the Apsidal Windows are huge. 

Milan Cathedral is a brick building, faced with Marble from the quarries which Gian Galeazzo Visconti donated in perpetuity to the Cathedral Chapter.

In 2015, Milan’s Cathedral developed a new lighting system using LEDs.[18]



Milan Cathedral at night.
Photo: 10 December 2022.
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The Cathedral was built over several hundred years in a number of contrasting styles. Reactions to it have ranged from admiration to disfavour. The Guida d’Italia: Milano 1998 (Touring Club Editore) points out that the early Romantics tended to praise it in “the first intense enthusiasm 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 Style with Flamboyant Style; the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on a pure, but a very early, penetrative Gothic Style.

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