Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Santa Maria delle Grazie
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Preferred Title:
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Santa Maria delle Grazie
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Image View:
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General view from the northwest, depicting original church with Bramante's addition of the tribune at rear
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Creator:
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attributed to Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514); Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Italian patron, 1452-1508)
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Location:
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site: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Date:
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1492-1497 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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church
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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brick
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; death or burial; Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508
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Description:
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The prestigious project for a new eastern end (tribuna) to the church of S Maria delle Grazie, Milan, was commissioned by the Duke [Ludovico Sforza] as a mausoleum; work began on 29 March 1492. The basic design, attached to Guiniforte Solari's Late Gothic nave (1463), seems to have been Bramante's, although this has not been proved conclusively; if so, he must again have been working in conjunction with Amadeo and Dolcebuono, who are documented. The layout consists of an enormous square crossing crowned with a hemispherical dome, vast apses to left and right and a square chancel covered by a remarkable umbrella vault and with a further apse beyond. Bramante's fascination with apsidal design, which characterizes virtually all his church designs from Pavia Cathedral onwards, may here have had specific funerary associations. At S Maria delle Grazie the design was adapted to truly monumental proportions. The overall coherence of the interior, which was executed largely in terracotta and stucco, nevertheless point
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Two
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Identifier:
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1A1-BD-SG-A1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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