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MILAN CATHEDRAL.
625
towering structure as Arnolfo’s vast substructures show that he
intemied, could have stood on the sliru supports of the Bolognese
ehurch.1
The cathedral of Milan—at once the most remarkable and one of
506. Plan of tbe Catbedral of Milan. (From ‘Chiesi Principali d’Europa.’) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
the largest ancl richest of all the churches erectecl in the Middle Ages—■
was commenced in the year 1385, by order of Gian Galeazzo, first
Duke of Milan, and consecrated in 1418, at which clate all the essential
1 If we may trust Wiebeking, the first
two bays of tbe naye from the front were
vaulted in 1588, but the work was sus-
VOL. I.
pended till 1647, and completed only in
1659. Yet no difference can be perceived
in the details of the design.
2 S
MILAN CATHEDRAL.
625
towering structure as Arnolfo’s vast substructures show that he
intemied, could have stood on the sliru supports of the Bolognese
ehurch.1
The cathedral of Milan—at once the most remarkable and one of
506. Plan of tbe Catbedral of Milan. (From ‘Chiesi Principali d’Europa.’) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
the largest ancl richest of all the churches erectecl in the Middle Ages—■
was commenced in the year 1385, by order of Gian Galeazzo, first
Duke of Milan, and consecrated in 1418, at which clate all the essential
1 If we may trust Wiebeking, the first
two bays of tbe naye from the front were
vaulted in 1588, but the work was sus-
VOL. I.
pended till 1647, and completed only in
1659. Yet no difference can be perceived
in the details of the design.
2 S