English: Milan Cathedral.
Italiano: Milano - Duomo.
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The first Cathedral, the “new Basilica” (Basilica Nova), dedicated to Saint Thecla, was completed by 355 A.D. It seems to share, on a smaller scale, the Plan of the contemporaneous Church recently re-discovered beneath Tower Hill in London. An adjoining Basilica was erected in 836 A,D.
The old Octagonal Baptistery, the Battistero Paleocristiano, dates to 335 A.D., and can be visited under Milan Cathedral. When a fire damaged the Cathedral and Basilica in 1075, they were rebuilt as the Duomo.
barring Emperor Theodosius I from Milan Cathedral.
Artist: Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).
Date: 1619.
Current location: National Gallery, London.
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English: Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica
of The Nativity of Saint Mary, Milan.
Italiano: Interno del Duomo di Milano.
Photo: 1 January 2000.
Source: Own work.
Author: Paolo da Reggio.
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Milan Cathedral
(Duomo di Milano).
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Milan Cathedral.
Photo: 31 December 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Mikko Virtaperk.
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English: Stained-Glass Window, Milan Cathedral.
Italiano: Giovanni Battista Bertini (1799-1849)
e Giuseppe Bertini (1825-1898), vetrata (1833-62)
dell’abside del Duomo di Milano.
Photo: 14 July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: G.dallorto.
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PART THREE FOLLOWS.
Another magnificent Zephyrinus-guided journey to another great sanctuary of the Catholic world, “Il Duomo di Milano.”
ReplyDeleteThis reader had no idea of its immense size and capacity (able to accommodate up to 40,000 at one time according to sone sources), nor of its vast roof with scores of spires and gargoyles.
The facing stone we are told is composed of “Candoglia marble,” a type of rough, rare, pink-and-white marble from a specific Alpine quarry, “the Candoglia Quarry”, in the gorge of the river Toce at the entrance of the Ossola valley, in Piedmont province. This stone makes this magnificent cathedral glisten majestically in the sunlight.
Looking forward to Zephyrinus’ next vignette in this cathedral of which this reader knew little. -Comment by Dante P.
Zephyrinus is delighted that this particular Post pleased our Mediæval Architectural Correspondent, Dante P, and provided some new information to him.
DeleteThe profound beauty of Milan Cathedral defies description. Suffice to say that it is so beautiful, it is only befitting to one entity . . . God.
Thank you for your warm enthusiasm, Dante P.
The next Part of this Post is soon to appear.
Zephyrinus is delighted that this particular Post pleased our Mediæval Architectural Correspondent, Dante P, and provided some new information to him.
DeleteThe profound beauty of Milan Cathedral defies description. Suffice to say that it is so beautiful, it is only befitting to one entity . . . God.
Thank you for your warm enthusiasm, Dante P.
The next Part of this Post is soon to appear.