Milan (Italy) -- Description and travel; Milan (Italy) -- History
In the Sacristy of the Canons may be seen some beautiful illuminated
books, the most precious of which is the famous Missal of Gian Galeazzo
Visconte, of the late fourteenth century, which commemorates the
coronation of that prince as first Duke of Milan. It is exquisitely
illuminated, in clear brilliant colour, by a Lombard miniaturist,
Annovello da Imbonate. The front page depicts the scene of the
coronation; a beautiful composition in which the Duke appears kneeling
in crimson robe and ermine at the feet of the imperial legate, with his
subjects gathered below. In the ornamental border the emblems of the
Visconti are introduced; the snake, the dog chained beneath a tree, the
dove with the motto, _A bon droit_, etc. There are other pages fully
miniatured with scenes of Gian Galeazzo’s career. Among several Corali
of the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, there are two with
very fine and delicate miniatures, attributed to Borgognone and
suggestive of that painter in the sentiment and pose of the figures.
The _Teca degli Innocenti_, a silver casket of the late fifteenth
century, containing relics of the Innocents, and very elaborately
decorated with bas-reliefs of the Massacre, and other New Testament
scenes, is kept in the sacristy, and also a silver pax, called Filippo
Maria Visconte’s, with a bas-relief of the Dead Christ, of Lombard
workmanship; a fifteenth century ostensory, of beautiful Gothic form,
and a processional cross, given by S. Carlo to the church, but of
earlier date.
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