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Viboldone Abbey

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with, in the middle, Jesus and at his left the Damned, overlook by Satan. Other frescoes, depicting Renaissance musical instruments, are housed in the Music Hall, located in a building annexed to the church.
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school. It has a rectangular hall plan, with a nave and two aisles with five spans each (the first ones in Romanesque style, while the remaining ones are Gothic with cotto columns and high
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and visible brickwork with white stone decorations, and divided into three sectors by two semi-columns. The entrance portal is in white marble, and is surmounted by a
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After several years of abandonment, the abbey is currently home to the Community of Madre Margherita Marchi (Benedictine nuns) since 1941.
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and small arcades at the bases of the double and triple mullioned windows. The latter are surmounted by small circular windows.
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The interior is rather sober, with few decorations, aside from the extensive fresco decoration of the
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with marble sculptures of the "Madonna with Child between the Saints Ambrose and
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The bell tower has an appearance similar to that of the façade, with frames in
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The abbey was founded in 1176 and completed in 1348 by the
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1348
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abbey
frazione
San Giuliano Milanese
province of Milan
Italy
Humiliati
Humiliati
Pope Pius V
Olivetan
Benedictines
Austrian hands

mullioned windows
lunette
John of Meda
cotto
Giottesque
cross vaults
Maestà
Official website
45°23′10″N 9°16′38″E / 45.38611°N 9.27722°E / 45.38611; 9.27722
Categories
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1348
Gothic architecture in Lombardy
Monasteries in Lombardy
Humiliati Order
Olivetan monasteries
Benedictine nunneries in Italy

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