Milan Cathedral Italy Duomo di Milano 1894 Antique Print
A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture.
Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 10" x 8" or 25cm x 20cm
Actual page including border and text is approx 12.75" x 10.5" or 32.5cm x 26.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction
and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of
the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.
1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
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Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
THE MILAN CATHEDRAL, ITALY.—No matter how weary one may have become from visiting numberless cathedrals through the length and breadth of Europe, here is one before which he feels inclined to kneel in admiration. It is one of the most majestic, and at the same time beautiful and elaborate, structures in the world. It reveals Gothic architecture carried to its most exquisite limits. Its material is white marble. There are times, especially by moonlight, when it seems like a mountain of alabaster peopled with thousands of graceful figures. This is hardly an exaggeration, for there are actually more than 4,800 marble statues on the exterior of this marvellous structure. Nor are these figures roughly finished on account of their elevation from the street. If we ascend to the roof and examine some of them, we shall find each one an admirable work of art. Some of them are the products of Canova's genius. To walk over the roof of this "eighth wonder of the world" is to wander through aerial sculpture-galleries, surrounded by myriads of columns, towers, pinnacles, buttresses and arches, all tenanted by snow-white angels, warriors, saints, kings or cherubs, outlined at times like frosted silver on the sky. It should be also remembered that the interior of this marble Duosno is worthy of the exterior in the grandeur of its dimensions, its gigantic fluted columns, and its magnificent stained glass windows, through which the rays of sunlight fall on the vast mosaic pavement like the ruby and golden hues of autumnal leaves.