DuomoThe construction of the Duomo in Milan started in 1386, for wish of Gian Galeazzo Viscounts that taken command of the city after having imprisoned uncle Bernabò Visconti. The kingdom of Galeazzo was wide soon in all of oriental Lombardy and zones of the region of Veneto as well as to south, Pisa, Siena, Perugia and Bologna. Its idea was that to create a solo kingdom of northern Italy and so the was born it desired a church worthy of the capital of the future. In this place the two ancient basilicas of Saint Tecla rose and Saint damaged Maria Maggiore seriously from the collapse of the bell-tower in 1353.
The Duomo it was open for the adoration in 1418 while the forehead of the façade was not completed yet. After the transfer of the Viscounts and the Republic Ambrosiana, to the new command Francesco Sforza the construction came it continued with the erection of the columns of the vase, the glass was installed in the great windows of apse and the sculptures they continued both to the inside and to the outside. The difficulties of geometry and statics were compared before completing the most complicated part in the Cathedral: the dome. Many architects had called for the collaboration, included the great Leonardo da Vinci. In the 1500 Milan it became ownership of the Spaniards and later from French. The jobs after the death of Amedeo, architect and sculptor that devoted 50 years of continued service to the project. At the end of 1527, the Archbishop Carlo Borromeo commissioned the jobs to Pilgrim Wandering (also known as Tibaldi) to continue the project. The Pilgrims that it had primarily worked in Rome it created problems to the artisan friends because he didn't have anybody intention to continue the Gothic style. This also explains because the great choir of stone in the apse is fundamentally of the Renaissance. From 1570 to 1590, the errand they continued to head of Federico Borromeo, the brother of Carlo and new archbishop of the city, the job of Pellegrini was continued and they began the jobs in façade, creating the doors and the lowest windows. In 1590 around, the construction of the Duomo stopped him for the confrontations tempestuous on the great difference between the Gothic parts and the façade. The situation was resolved after the turn of the following century when the architect Buzzi created the pillars of Gothic style saving the doors and the windows of the Richini. Even if the most greater part of the roof of the Duomo you was completed, the job was going to a slow rhythm up to 1765 when I begin the preparation of the top. In 1774 Maria's statue, the famous one "Madonnina" you/he/she was inserted. Created by Giuseppe Perego in beaten copper covering her/it in gold leaf. In 1805, with Napoleone in command of the city, it ordered to quickly complete the façade completes sooner the possible.
The secondary one on the dome was completed in 1877. Shortly after Italy had finally entered existence in 1861, the Plaza was authoritative open and the final architectural resolutions were performed among 1865 and 1874 with discussions on the façade once more in cause on the of the great differences with the rest of the construction. Then in 1888 an errand was organized for the new façade and it was defeated with a sketch Gothic mole done from Giuseppe Brentano. Unfortunately, one year later to the young age of 27, Brentano died and its sketch was deferred and later abandoned. The completion of the façade was finally seen before in the first XX century with the insertion of the bronze door served as Ludovico Pogliaghi. 1965 was not false when the last bronze door, of the sculptor Minguzzi, it was installed completing the construction of the Cathedral. Three years of renewals, from 1981 to the 1984 had served for restructuring the four columns that sustain the dome. |
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With the growth of the city these places of cult resulted by now obsolete,
and too much small, therefore the.
Viscounts it generously contributed offering for the realization of the Duomo the marble, dug to Candoglia
northerly of Maggiore Lake.
It is probable that many architects, included those of Germany and of France they worked to the elaboration of
this project.
Numerous architects and sculptors had summoned from Chest of drawers and the surrounding area included Bourgogne,
Provenza, Savoia, Sweden, Slesia, Praga, Hungary and 'Austria.
In fact this Cathedral can be described
exactly as Gothic style" and International." The two Sacrisites, included the apse and the columns
of the choir and cruise were the first part of the construction.
On the side north of the apse, the first pinnacle with her
figure of disguised Gian Galeazzo as Saint George on the top, was completed in 1404.
The
job continued to a rhythm unprecedented.