The construction of the Certosa di Pavia was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, who inaugurated the work August 27, 1936, laying the foundation stone of the yard. The location was strategic: halfway between Milan, the capital of the duchy, and Pavia, the second-largest city, where the duke grew up and where the court was located in the beautiful Visconti castle.
The church, which was to become dynastic mausoleum of the Dukes of Milan, was designed in large in size, with an unusual structure with three aisles to the Carthusian order and was built to last. The church plant
Latin cross divided into three naves with an apse and transept, covered by vaults on arches, inspired, albeit on a reduced scale, the proportions of the Cathedral of Milan. The esapartite
times are painted alternately with geometric motifs and a starry sky.
singular are the ends of the transepts and the main chapel, chapels made of a square enclosed on three sides by semi-circular apses, according to a probable solution of classically inspired trilobata.
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