Monumental Churches of Milan - Page 2

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 05:08 PM

A revival church from 1902 by architect Paolo Cesa Bianchi

all those pictures are from Stefano "Gusme" Gusmeroli photographer

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 05:25 PM

And a last one for today, San Gottardo in Corte: it was the chapel of the royal palace, and it is built in lombard brick gothic style.

the church bell is visible from the Piazza del Duomo, and it is informally considered to be the bell tower of the cathedral (the bell tower of the cathedral has never been built...until now at least

)

Azzone Visconti's grave, it was and ancient king of Milan. His grave is richly sculpted in a very elegant and refined gothic style

and now the masterpiece of the chuch, the almost evanescent fresco from XIII century. Some experts says it was made by Giotto. It is difficult to say, but surely it comes from Giotto's school, if not the master himself, since the artist was in Milan at the time. With a restoration, the fresco would be very much visible, even if an intervention would be very complicated...

And last but not least, the 100% decorated silver altarpiece

JohnnyMass · March 18th, 2012, 08:17 PM

This thread makes my smile a little for I've had plenty of discussions with friends that mock me whenever I say I would like to visit Milan very much. They always say Milan is an industrial city with not much more to visit than the cathedral... lol.

Great thread, it is inspiring me to make a similiar one!

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 08:32 PM

thank you very much! Please open a thread like this for Porto, there's a lot of things to see there too and I'm curious!

Yeah the world only knows two Milans: the first one is the elegant, shopping friendly and with a lot of fashon related things, the second one is the urban style graffitti-underground subculture with loads of crazy design-related things.

But there's also a third Milan, my preferred part: the Renaissance city who welcomed the young Leonardo da Vinci, Bramante and so on...the churches (and the palaces, probably the next thread) show this fact pretty well, according to me

JohnnyMass · March 18th, 2012, 08:43 PM

Porto does not have 300 churches, not even close to that!

It does have a couple of good ones though. It would have to be a "Monumental Porto thread".

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 11:03 PM

the ancient/monumental ones are some 120/170, depending on the criteria used...300 is the total number....but Porto has the Sea and it is an important historical city, a thread about the city would be a sure enrichment for the whole community here!

San Gottardo al Corso

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 11:17 PM

San Pietro in Gessate, ancient gothic church with many frescoes and artworks on the side chapels

Ambrogio Grifi tomb statue, by renaissance sculptor Benedetto Briosco (1493)

Fresco by Bernardino Butinone and Bernardo Zenale

...and for this church too we can find a 360° to see what it looks like live!

http://www.360cities.net/image/san-p....28,-2.07,70.0

tommolo · March 18th, 2012, 11:30 PM

San Carlo al Lazzaretto, baroque church built by San Carlo Borromeo during the plague

Picture by Skymino

image hosted on flickr

Picture by Skymino

Fab87 · March 18th, 2012, 11:31 PM

Milan is such an underrated city. Most italians think it is ugly and modern in a bad way and they barely know the Duomo, Sant'Ambrogio and Santa Maria delle Grazie.
It is indeed a coffer full of jewels, able to compete with the most beautiful italian historical cities!
Thank you for opening this thread.

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 12:57 AM

Yeah, we often communicate badly the essence of Milan...
Of course it has been the city where in early XXth century some elements of modernity was forged, like for example Futurism (along with its speed, steel and glass myth), but now we need to get over it.
Sometimes -still now, 90 years after Futurism, Boccioni, Balla, Marinetti! - we prefer to tell how modern our city is (or is supposed to be), while would be maybe more interesting in telling people how ancient our city is, if you know what I mean

Mannerist church of San Barnaba (San Barnaba was the first evangelizer of Milan)

image hosted on flickr

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 01:09 AM

Paleochristian church of San Vincenzo in Prato (the original church was built in 700 a.D. and it is built in perfect Roman style: the first churches and the civil basilicas in Rome must have been looking alike this structure)

image hosted on flickr

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 12:46 PM

Santa Maria Segreta church

the four following pictures are by Gusme

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 12:54 PM

Santa Maria alle Grazie al Naviglio

Unfinished facade on the oustide...

...and the original project to finish it

A very ugly rendering I made to show you how it would look like when the facade is finished

image hosted on flickr

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 01:14 PM

Santa Maria alla Pace

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 01:24 PM

Santa Maria la Rossa in Crescenzago

Ancient romanesque/gothic frescoes

...and the usual 360° visit to the church!

http://www.lanprolab.net/milano/santamariarossa/

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 01:34 PM

Another paleochristian one, Santa Maria la Rossa or Santa Maria ad fontem. In the lower level roman ruins from II century are visible, and Giotto's school frescoes remaining are visibles on the walls...

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 02:51 PM

San Gregorio Magno church

image hosted on flickr

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 03:02 PM

San Raffaele church, facade by mannerist architect Galeazzo Alessi

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 03:26 PM

Santa Maria della Sanità church

tommolo · March 19th, 2012, 03:42 PM

Santa Maria al Paradiso church

March 18th, 2012, 08:17 PM	#23
JohnnyMass Whatever Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Porto Posts: 45,807 Likes (Received): 195	This thread makes my smile a little for I've had plenty of discussions with friends that mock me whenever I say I would like to visit Milan very much. They always say Milan is an industrial city with not much more to visit than the cathedral... lol. Great thread, it is inspiring me to make a similiar one! __________________ Edit my Signature Last edited by JohnnyMass; March 18th, 2012 at 08:44 PM.

March 18th, 2012, 08:43 PM	#25
JohnnyMass Whatever Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Porto Posts: 45,807 Likes (Received): 195	Porto does not have 300 churches, not even close to that! It does have a couple of good ones though. It would have to be a "Monumental Porto thread". __________________ Edit my Signature

March 18th, 2012, 11:03 PM	#26
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	the ancient/monumental ones are some 120/170, depending on the criteria used...300 is the total number....but Porto has the Sea and it is an important historical city, a thread about the city would be a sure enrichment for the whole community here! San Gottardo al Corso Last edited by tommolo; March 27th, 2012 at 05:04 PM.

March 18th, 2012, 11:31 PM	#29
Fab87 east side man Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Brussels Posts: 4,553 Likes (Received): 473	Milan is such an underrated city. Most italians think it is ugly and modern in a bad way and they barely know the Duomo, Sant'Ambrogio and Santa Maria delle Grazie. It is indeed a coffer full of jewels, able to compete with the most beautiful italian historical cities! Thank you for opening this thread. __________________ Coole Typen vergisst man nicht *Verona, where Rome meets Venice*

March 19th, 2012, 01:09 AM	#31
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Paleochristian church of San Vincenzo in Prato (the original church was built in 700 a.D. and it is built in perfect Roman style: the first churches and the civil basilicas in Rome must have been looking alike this structure) image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

March 18th, 2012, 05:08 PM	#21
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	A revival church from 1902 by architect Paolo Cesa Bianchi all those pictures are from Stefano "Gusme" Gusmeroli photographer

March 18th, 2012, 05:25 PM	#22
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	And a last one for today, San Gottardo in Corte: it was the chapel of the royal palace, and it is built in lombard brick gothic style. the church bell is visible from the Piazza del Duomo, and it is informally considered to be the bell tower of the cathedral (the bell tower of the cathedral has never been built...until now at least ) Azzone Visconti's grave, it was and ancient king of Milan. His grave is richly sculpted in a very elegant and refined gothic style and now the masterpiece of the chuch, the almost evanescent fresco from XIII century. Some experts says it was made by Giotto. It is difficult to say, but surely it comes from Giotto's school, if not the master himself, since the artist was in Milan at the time. With a restoration, the fresco would be very much visible, even if an intervention would be very complicated... And last but not least, the 100% decorated silver altarpiece

March 18th, 2012, 08:32 PM	#24
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	thank you very much! Please open a thread like this for Porto, there's a lot of things to see there too and I'm curious! Yeah the world only knows two Milans: the first one is the elegant, shopping friendly and with a lot of fashon related things, the second one is the urban style graffitti-underground subculture with loads of crazy design-related things. But there's also a third Milan, my preferred part: the Renaissance city who welcomed the young Leonardo da Vinci, Bramante and so on...the churches (and the palaces, probably the next thread) show this fact pretty well, according to me

March 18th, 2012, 11:17 PM	#27
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	San Pietro in Gessate, ancient gothic church with many frescoes and artworks on the side chapels Ambrogio Grifi tomb statue, by renaissance sculptor Benedetto Briosco (1493) Fresco by Bernardino Butinone and Bernardo Zenale ...and for this church too we can find a 360° to see what it looks like live! http://www.360cities.net/image/san-p....28,-2.07,70.0

March 18th, 2012, 11:30 PM	#28
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	San Carlo al Lazzaretto, baroque church built by San Carlo Borromeo during the plague Picture by Skymino image hosted on flickr Picture by Skymino

March 19th, 2012, 12:57 AM	#30
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Yeah, we often communicate badly the essence of Milan... Of course it has been the city where in early XXth century some elements of modernity was forged, like for example Futurism (along with its speed, steel and glass myth), but now we need to get over it. Sometimes -still now, 90 years after Futurism, Boccioni, Balla, Marinetti! - we prefer to tell how modern our city is (or is supposed to be), while would be maybe more interesting in telling people how ancient our city is, if you know what I mean Mannerist church of San Barnaba (San Barnaba was the first evangelizer of Milan) image hosted on flickr

March 19th, 2012, 12:46 PM	#32
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria Segreta church the four following pictures are by Gusme

March 19th, 2012, 12:54 PM	#33
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria alle Grazie al Naviglio Unfinished facade on the oustide... ...and the original project to finish it A very ugly rendering I made to show you how it would look like when the facade is finished image hosted on flickr Last edited by tommolo; April 21st, 2012 at 01:36 PM.

March 19th, 2012, 01:14 PM	#34
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria alla Pace

March 19th, 2012, 01:24 PM	#35
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria la Rossa in Crescenzago Ancient romanesque/gothic frescoes ...and the usual 360° visit to the church! http://www.lanprolab.net/milano/santamariarossa/ Last edited by tommolo; March 19th, 2012 at 01:30 PM.

March 19th, 2012, 01:34 PM	#36
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Another paleochristian one, Santa Maria la Rossa or Santa Maria ad fontem. In the lower level roman ruins from II century are visible, and Giotto's school frescoes remaining are visibles on the walls...

March 19th, 2012, 02:51 PM	#37
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	San Gregorio Magno church image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

March 19th, 2012, 03:02 PM	#38
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	San Raffaele church, facade by mannerist architect Galeazzo Alessi

March 19th, 2012, 03:26 PM	#39
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria della Sanità church

March 19th, 2012, 03:42 PM	#40
tommolo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milano Posts: 1,991 Likes (Received): 59	Santa Maria al Paradiso church

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