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Female bust known as La Mora
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Votive statues from Porta Ticinese
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Female bust known as La Mora
Female head called of Theodora
Lying statue of Gaston de Foix
San Sigismondo traveling to Aguano
Ark of Bernabò Visconti
Plate with the symbols of the Evangelsti
Portal of the Banco Mediceo
Tabernacle with figures of angels
External fornix of the Pusterla dei Fabbri
Votive statues from Porta Ticinese
Nine hank readout

Votive statues from Porta Ticinese

Anonymous

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Museum of Ancient Art

Museum of Ancient Art

Piazza Castello, Milan

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In Milan, the medieval wall rebuilt starting from 1171 received a particular ornament thanks to a series of statues placed at the top of the main doors, works commissioned by Azzone and Giovanni Visconti, between 1336 and the mid-fourteenth century. The Tuscan Giovanni di Balduccio was called to design the entire series, but his autograph intervention is revealed only on some specimens. The sculptural complexes of the city gates have survived the wall structure and from the beginning of the nineteenth century the statues became part of the heritage of the Museum, starting with the nucleus of Porta Orientale, demolished in 1818. Recent is the entrance of the five statues placed on the Porta Ticinese aedicule, replaced by 1961 by marble copies. In addition to the Madonna enthroned with the Child and Sant'Ambrogio which offers the model of the sestiere, figures that also appear in the other groups, the sequence of Porta Ticinese presents San Pietro martire, San Lorenzo and Sant'Eustorgio, owners of the most important places of cult of that area.
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Title: Votive statues from Porta Ticinese

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1336 - 1338

Technique: Marble

Displayed in: Museum of Ancient Art

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