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Du 01 Janvier 2010 au 31 Décembre 2012

The church of Santa Maria at Fontana - Hotel Vittoria Milano

On the church of Santa Maria at Fontana, in Milan, Piazza Santa Maria in the Fountain 11 (previously, long attributed to Leonardo), the archivist Pretty Sironi in 1982 published the contract of March 17, 1508 that he found where 'architect Giovanni Antonio Amadeo appears as the real designer and performer: earlier scholars had made the name of Leonardo, Bramante and Christopher Solari to justify the presence of architectural elements inspired by classic monuments. As confirmed the Cesariano (1521), together with the Ca 'Granda and Lazzaretto, Santa Maria to Fontana was one of the three cornerstones on which the structure was divided health of the city. The governor of Milan, Charles II d'Amboise, tradition relates the foundation in 1507; here could be transported "richi them that perhaps de every negritudine vorano be treated."
How to properly observes G. B. Sannazzaro, the plan was also detected in a small scale, the scheme that in some respects, it is actually at Ca 'Granda: The provision of open sacellum on three squares was designed to allow the sick to attend the celebration of the sacraments, near the source, the first origin of the entire sanctuary. These links are to confirm the affinity repeatedly detected among Amadeo and Filarete, which may also extend to the design map in the Treaty filaretiano (1461-'64), dell'Archicodomus or college for putti. If you have found the presence of the golden proportion, but only in specchiature the upper part of sacellum, the whole plan is ideally conduct on the report rectory of 1:2. Scholars there have stressed the application of the then debated proposals to quadratum, and their reflections metaphysical, both in the diagram and raised, where the square and the circle seem to have religious meanings and cosmic.
If in Santa Maria Fontana appears that the close relationship between the central facility and dedication to Our Lady common to many Renaissance churches, it seems important to the provision to twelve segments of the vault of sacellum: a unique in Italy and this figure brings the theory polyhedra of the Pacioli and symbolic meanings of 12 in interpretations neoplatoniche Christianized, not excluding debates on the heavenly Jerusalem. This application of principles cabalistici and numerologici is also confirmed in two other domes dodecagonali for churches equally dedicated to Our Lady miraculous: the shrines of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Saronno (whose dome Amadeo presented the draft project in 1505) and, even in Santa Maria at San Celso in Milan, for which the Amadeo had procured a model (1494) and, later (1498), columns and capitals for tiburio. As in 1492 had also worked at the gallery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is not accidental that in the votive chapel of Santa Maria at Fontana riappaia the basic measure of the chapel choir of 24 arms Milan. They were cited as possible models of interest: the Canopus and the criptoportico the Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the nymphaeum of sallustiani Orti, the courtyard of a Roman palace of Baccio della Cancelleria Pontelli, and Milan Canonica of Sant'Ambrogio, the cloister of San Pietro in Gessate, cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, the facade of Saint-Maurice to the Monastery Maggiore, the side of Santa Maria at San Celso, the facade of the church of Castelnovo of Fogliani: in short, all results based on a solid technical constructive Lombard updated on Roman Venetian models or mediated by Giuliano da Sangallo or Christopher Solari. In implementation of a pact contained in a document dated March 17, 1508, the businessmen of the church elect a referee who, together all'Amadeo, will have to decide on any dispute between them and Members to construction. For reasons unknown so far remained s'interruppero work in 1509 and then be taken up and completed in 1513. The church at that time was in open country beyond the door Comasina and for security reasons the complex of buildings, as today you can see, was closed to the north.


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