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15. Mantua Cathedral, rebuilt after the design of Giulio Romano,
from 1545 on, interior towards the high altar. Photo: P. Krasny
back to the times of the Roman Empire.89 Such origins of
the church were conspicuously manifested by the new in-
terior furnishings of the chancel, which alluded to early
Christian models, through the location of the episcopal
throne on the axis of the apse, with seats for the clergy on
its either side90, and the altar installed in the middle of the
chancel in such a way that the officiating priest was able
to celebrate the mass facing the congregation, a fact that,
89 mure antiche [...] d’intorno fatte di sopra alla Tadesca con merli
e punte, come anticamente s’usava [...] con moderna e eccelente
architettura’, I. Donesmondi, Dell’istoria ecclesiastica di Mantova,
voi. 2, Mantua, 1616, p. 172. The first cathedral, erected in Mantua
in the early Christian period, was replaced around 1100 by anoth-
er church that was thoroughly rebuilt in the fifteenth century. See
E. Marani, ‘Una ricostruzione del Duomo di Mantova nell’età ro-
manica’, Bolletino Storico Mantovano, 7,1957, pp. 161-185.
90 P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, pp. 74, 77, Figs. 30, 31 (as in note
26).
as the Gonzaga historiographer, Giacomo Daino (1480-
-1560), related, caused a substantial confusion.91 The con-
scious and even manifest return to early Christian tradi-
tions in the new arrangement of the cathedral was fur-
ther attested by the choice of subjects for side altarpieces
which depicted exclusively saints living in the first cen-
turies AD, namely: the Apostle and Evangelist John; the
martyrs: Agatha, Lucy, Theda, and Margaret; the Father
of the Church Jerome, the model pastor of a diocese Mar-
tin, and the anchorite Anthony.92
91 G. Daino, De origine et genealogia illustrissimae domus domi-
norum de Gonzaga, in P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, p. 141 (as
in note 26). See also P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, p. 74 (as in
note 26).
92 P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, pp. 114-116; B. Furlotti, G. Re-
becchini, The Art of Mantua, pp. 200-201; F. Biferali, Paolo Ve-
ronese tra Riforma e Controriforma, Rome, 2013, p. 64.
16. Mantua Cathedral, rebuilt after the design of Giulio Romano,
from 1545 on, interior of the aisles. Photo: P. Krasny
15. Mantua Cathedral, rebuilt after the design of Giulio Romano,
from 1545 on, interior towards the high altar. Photo: P. Krasny
back to the times of the Roman Empire.89 Such origins of
the church were conspicuously manifested by the new in-
terior furnishings of the chancel, which alluded to early
Christian models, through the location of the episcopal
throne on the axis of the apse, with seats for the clergy on
its either side90, and the altar installed in the middle of the
chancel in such a way that the officiating priest was able
to celebrate the mass facing the congregation, a fact that,
89 mure antiche [...] d’intorno fatte di sopra alla Tadesca con merli
e punte, come anticamente s’usava [...] con moderna e eccelente
architettura’, I. Donesmondi, Dell’istoria ecclesiastica di Mantova,
voi. 2, Mantua, 1616, p. 172. The first cathedral, erected in Mantua
in the early Christian period, was replaced around 1100 by anoth-
er church that was thoroughly rebuilt in the fifteenth century. See
E. Marani, ‘Una ricostruzione del Duomo di Mantova nell’età ro-
manica’, Bolletino Storico Mantovano, 7,1957, pp. 161-185.
90 P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, pp. 74, 77, Figs. 30, 31 (as in note
26).
as the Gonzaga historiographer, Giacomo Daino (1480-
-1560), related, caused a substantial confusion.91 The con-
scious and even manifest return to early Christian tradi-
tions in the new arrangement of the cathedral was fur-
ther attested by the choice of subjects for side altarpieces
which depicted exclusively saints living in the first cen-
turies AD, namely: the Apostle and Evangelist John; the
martyrs: Agatha, Lucy, Theda, and Margaret; the Father
of the Church Jerome, the model pastor of a diocese Mar-
tin, and the anchorite Anthony.92
91 G. Daino, De origine et genealogia illustrissimae domus domi-
norum de Gonzaga, in P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, p. 141 (as
in note 26). See also P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, p. 74 (as in
note 26).
92 P. Piva, L’altro Giulio Romano, pp. 114-116; B. Furlotti, G. Re-
becchini, The Art of Mantua, pp. 200-201; F. Biferali, Paolo Ve-
ronese tra Riforma e Controriforma, Rome, 2013, p. 64.
16. Mantua Cathedral, rebuilt after the design of Giulio Romano,
from 1545 on, interior of the aisles. Photo: P. Krasny