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

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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On 20 May 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte, about to be crowned King of Italy, ordered the façade to be finished by Pellicani. In his enthusiasm, he assured that all expenses would fall to the French treasury, which would reimburse the Fabbrica for the real estate it had to sell. Though the re-imbursement was never paid, it still meant that finally, within only seven years, the Cathedral’s façade was completed. 

Pellicani largely followed Buzzi’s project, adding some Neo-Gothic details to the upper windows. As a form of thanksgiving, a statue of Napoleon was placed at the top of one of the Spires. Napoleon was crowned King of Italy at the Duomo.

In the following years, most of the missing Arches and Spires were constructed. The Statues on the Southern Wall were also finished, while, during 1829–1858, new Stained-Glass Windows replaced the old ones, though with less aesthetically significant results.

English: Stained-Glass Window commissioned by Pope 

Pius IV Medici for the monumental grave to his brother, the condottiero Gian Giacomo Medici (1498-1555), called "il Medeghino", by Leone Leoni, in the Cathedral in Milan.

Italiano: Duomo di Milano. Vetrata di papa Pio IV 

Medici, al di sopra del monumento funebre a suo fratello, il condottiero Gian Giacomo Medici (1498-1555), 

detto "il Medeghino", di Leone Leoni.

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The last details of the Cathedral were finished only in the 20th-Century: The last Portal was inaugurated on 6 January 1965. This date is considered the very end of a process which had proceeded for generations, although, even now, some uncarved blocks remain to be completed as statues.

PART NINE FOLLOWS.

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

English: Milan Cathedral.

Italiano: Milano - Duomo.

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Duomo of Milan.

The Church That Took 600 Years To Finish.

Available on YouTube

HERE

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Stained-Glass Window,

Milan Cathedral.

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In 1386, Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo began construction of the Cathedral.[7] The start of the construction coincided with the ascension to power in Milan of the Archbishop’s cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and was meant as a reward to the noble and working classes, who had suffered under his tyrannical Visconti predecessor, Barnabò.

The construction of the Cathedral was also dictated by specific political choices: With the new construction site, the population of Milan intended to emphasise the centrality of Milan in the eyes of Gian Galeazzo, a prominence questioned by the choice of the new lord to reside and maintain his Court, like his father Galeazzo II, in Pavia, and not in Milan.[8]

Before work began, three main buildings were demolished: The Palace of the Archbishop; the Ordinari Palace; and the Baptistry of Saint Stephen at the Spring, while the old Church of Santa Maria Maggiore was exploited as a stone quarry.

Luigi Benedetti plays the Organ in the Duomo, Milan.

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The Duomo di Milano Organ.

Built by Mascioni of Cuvio (Varese) and Tamburini of Crema in 1938, restored and relocated entirely in the Presbytery by Tamburini in 1986, the Grand Organ of the Duomo is the largest in Italy and firmly maintains its second place in Europe as regards the number of Pipes and Stops (surpassed only by the Organ of Passau Cathedral, in Germany) and is among the fifteen largest Organs in the World.

The current numbers of this giant are truly impressive:

15,800 Pipes, the highest over nine meters high, while the smallest measures just a few centimetres.

Five Organ Cases (Grand Organ North and South Side – Positive and Recitative North Side – Solo and Eco South Side – Choral at the Altar level).

Five Consoles (main Console with five manuals, Altar-side Console with three manuals, Choral Console with two manuals, two Apse Consoles with one manual).

Read about Milan Cathedral’s magnificent Organ

HERE

Design for the Crowning of Ferdinand I of Austria 

at the Duomo in 1838, by Alessandro Sanquirico.

Date: 22 September 2014.

Source: http://www.gramilano.com/2013/11/sanquirico-designer-norma-anna-bolena-finally-rests-among-greats/

Author: Alessandro Sanquirico, before 1833

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