![]() ![]() ![]() Start of the construction coincided with the ascension to power in Milan of the archbishop's cousin Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and was meant as a reward to the noble and working classes, who had suffered under his tyrannical Visconti predecessor Barnabò. ![]() ![]() In 1386, Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo began construction of the cathedral. When a fire damaged the cathedral and basilica in 1075, they were rebuilt as the Duomo. The old octagonal baptistery, the Battistero Paleocristiano, dates to 335 and still can be visited under the cathedral. An adjoining basilica was erected in 836. It seems to share, on a slightly smaller scale, the plan of the contemporaneous church recently rediscovered beneath Tower Hill in London. The first cathedral, the "new basilica" ( basilica nova) dedicated to St Thecla, was completed by 355. Milan's layout, with streets either radiating from the Duomo or circling it, reveals that the Duomo occupies what was the most central site in Roman Mediolanum, that of the public basilica facing the forum. Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral by Anthony van Dyck ![]()
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