COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Image View:
Tribune, view of the row of pedimented windows under the arcade
Creator:
attributed to Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514); Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Italian patron, 1452-1508)
Location:
site: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Date:
1492-1497 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
church
Classification:
architecture
Material:
brick
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; death or burial; Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508; window; pediment
Description:
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
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Two
Identifier:
1A1-BD-SG-C3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Santa Maria delle Grazie
