Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514); Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Italian patron, 1452-1508)
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Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514); Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Italian patron, 1452-1508)
Creator
Location:
site: Sant'Ambrogio (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
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site: Sant'Ambrogio (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location
Date:
1492-1499 (creation)
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1492-1499 (creation)
Date
Cultural Context:
Italian
Work_Culture
Italian
Cultural Context
Style Period:
Renaissance
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Renaissance
Style Period
Work Type 1:
arcade
Work_Worktype1
arcade
Work Type 1
Classification:
architectural elements
Work_Classification
architectural elements
Classification
Material:
brick; stone
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brick; stone
Material
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Work_Technique
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Technique
Relation Work:
formerly part of Sant'Ambrogio
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formerly part of Sant'Ambrogio
Relation Work
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508
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architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508
Subjects
Description:
[In 1930 the main campus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore moved into the old monastery of Sant'Ambrogio.] Around 1492 the Duke of Milan commissioned Bramante to design the courtyard known as the Canonica at the Romanesque abbey church of S Ambrogio, Milan. The courtyard, of which only two incomplete sides were ever built, abuts the north wall of the church; its main axis is marked by a doorway into the building. On each side there are 11 arches, which, except at the centre, are supported on columns with Corinthian capitals. The central arch, twice as wide and almost twice as tall as the others, is supported on slender piers, each faced with a pilaster and raised on a tall pedestal. The columns next to the piers and those at the angles were made to resemble tree trunks. This motif, apart from being an emblem of the Duke, provides a learned antiquarian reference to the historical ancestry of the column as described by Vitruvius and illustrated by both Filarete and Francesco di Giorgio in their treati
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[In 1930 the main campus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore moved into the old monastery of Sant'Ambrogio.] Around 1492 the Duke of Milan commissioned Bramante to design the courtyard known as the Canonica at the Romanesque abbey church of S Ambrogio, Milan. The courtyard, of which only two incomplete sides were ever built, abuts the north wall of the church; its main axis is marked by a doorway into the building. On each side there are 11 arches, which, except at the centre, are supported on columns with Corinthian capitals. The central arch, twice as wide and almost twice as tall as the others, is supported on slender piers, each faced with a pilaster and raised on a tall pedestal. The columns next to the piers and those at the angles were made to resemble tree trunks. This motif, apart from being an emblem of the Duke, provides a learned antiquarian reference to the historical ancestry of the column as described by Vitruvius and illustrated by both Filarete and Francesco di Giorgio in their treati
