Un «tabernacolo di metallo fatto da Jacobo di Duca siciliano secondo il disegno di messer Michel Angelo Bonaroti» per il Duomo di Milano
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An unpublished document from the Chapter’s Archive of the Duomo of
Milan certifies the offer of a tabernacle to be placed in the Cathedral,
upon a drawing by Michelangelo («tabernacolo di metallo da porsi in
Duomo giusta il disegno di Michel Angelo Buonaruota»), thus adding new
facts to our knowledge of a tabernacle realized by Giacomo Del Duca
upon a drawing by Michelangelo for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Del Duca’s work described in the document is very similar – even
in size – to that offered to Philip II for the church of Saint Lawrence of
El Escorial, thus allowing to say it is the same tabernacle; a relation to
the one now placed in the Charterhouse of Padula, formerly at the
Museum of Capodimonte, is less likely. The tabernacle offered to the Duomo has an octagonal shape, a stone pedestal and a metal body with a total height of 50 hands. On one of the eight facets of the pedestal there is a door which takes along a stair to
the octagonal reliquary guarding the Blessed Sacrament, illuminated by
eight windows, some with red stained glasses, with six corresponding
figures; both on the upper and in the lower sides are fourteen bas-reliefs
with the Stories of the Passion. A Crucifix and a Resurrected Christ are
embedded in the two main windows. Underneath, a second octagonal
bronze element constitutes the base of the actual tabernacle, while the
upper side culminating in an eight-sided vault with a balustrade, a globe
and an image of Christ ascending into heaven («Cristo […] il qual sta in
atidudine di ascendere in cielo»).
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