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Description: | The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore was begun in the Gothic style in 1396 but remodelled by the Lombard Renaissance architects Tomaso Rodari of Maroggia (fl. 1487-1526) and Cristoforo Solari (1460-1527) from 1486.The finials and window on this page are from the latter period. The previous Alexander Thomson scholarship holder, William James Anderson admired the "fanciful pinnacles"; remarking on how the "massive solidity and simplicity of the lower part of the building" was opposed to "the delicate richness of the sky-line".He suggested that the windows of the south aisle might have been designed by Donato Bramante (1444-1514) (William James Anderson, "The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy", 3rd ed. (London: Batsford, 1901) pp. 53-4).The drawing shows: a finial from the north aisle (left); a south aisle window (top right); the northernmost finial of the west front (bottom right). | Rights holder: | Glasgow School of Art | Subjects: | early Renaissance Gothic (medieval) churches finials exterior elevations cathedrals windows Como | Temporal: | 26th-27th June 1891 | Source: | Glasgow School of Art | Creator: | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | Identifier: | AN-MSB-55 | Go to resource |
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