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The Madonna in Glory and Saints John the Baptist, Gregory the Great, Benedict and Jerome
Madonna of Humility
The Molo towards the riva degli Schiavoni with the column of San Marco
The Verziere market
Madonna Bolognini
Portrait of a Young Man with Petrarchino
The Palazzo dei Giuristi and the Court of Justice of Milan
Madonna Lia
Pentecost
Madonna of the book

Pentecost

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, detto il Morazzone

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Sforza Castle Picture Gallery

Sforza Castle Picture Gallery

Piazza Castello, Milan

Closed today: open Tuesday at 10:00

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The canvas adorned the ceiling of the Chapel of San Giovanni Battista obtained in the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti. The building and the other architectural monuments located in Piazza dei Mercanti housed the most important public offices in Milan. The decoration of the chapel with stuccos, marbles and canvases is one of the rare commissions promoted by the civil community who wanted to dedicate the pictorial cycle to the two patron saints of the city, the Baptist and Saint Ambrose. The position of the large canvas imposes the view from below up, and the compositional cut testifies to the great scenographic mastery achieved by Morazzone and his Baroque interpretation of space. Pentecost appears in a dizzying glimpse from below, with the figures of Mary and the Apostles chained together to form a crown at the edges of the image. A luminous vortex expands in the center of the scene, a place from which the divine light radiates, the true protagonist of the painting.
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Title: Pentecost

Author: Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, detto il Morazzone

Date: 1615

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Sforza Castle Picture Gallery

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