Statue of St. George on the Carelli Spire of the Duomo

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Statue of St. George on the Carelli Spire of the Duomo sent on August 22, 2023 (1:21) by Roberto P. 7 comments, 607 views.

at 324mm, 1/500 f/6.3, ISO 200, hand held. Milano, Italy.

Sabato 13 aprile 2024, 9:47. In primo piano vediamo la Guglia Carelli, realizzata sull'angolo della Sacrestia Nord (o Aquilonare) a cavallo tra la fine del '300 e l'inizio del '400. È la più antica del Duomo e, per circa quattrocento anni, è stata una delle poche ad ornare la cattedrale, dal momento che la stragrande maggioranza delle 135 guglie venne realizzata nel corso del XIX secolo. Essa è intitolata a Marco Carelli, ricchissimo mercante che nominò la Veneranda Fabbrica sua erede universale; il che diede un grande contributo alla realizzazione dell'abside e dalla Sacrestia Aquilonare, che costituiscono la parte più antica del Duomo in quanto edificate a partire dal 1387 sotto il patrocinio di Gian Galeazzo Visconti, signore di Milano, che il medesimo anno fondò la Veneranda Fabbrica e le assegnò le cave di marmo di Candoglia, la principale materia con cui è costruita la cattedrale. Sopra la Guglia Carelli vediamo una statua raffigurante San Giorgio (forse con le fattezze di Gian Galeazzo Visconti) che regge uno stendardo. Si tratta una copia, realizzata in marmo di Candoglia negli anni '50 del '900, in sostituzione dell'originale, opera di Giorgio Solari e collocata sulla guglia nel 1403. Essa venne gravemente danneggiata da un bombardamento nel 1943; quindi restaurata dagli scultori della Veneranda Fabbrica (che hanno realizzato anche la copia) e attualmente si trova nel Museo del Duomo. A destra e fuori fuoco è la Guglia Maggiore, costruita tra il 1765 e il 1769 su progetto dell'architetto Francesco Croce; e penso che sia superfluo specificare cosa rappresenta la statua dorata in cima ad essa. Dirò solo che è alta quattro metri e che fu realizzata su disegno dello scultore Giuseppe Perego, tra il 1769 e il 1773, in lastre di rame placcate d'oro su un'armatura metallica. Nell'angolo in basso a destra si intravedono le impalcature per il restauro del Tiburio. Nel primo post dei commenti qui sotto vi sono altre due foto, prese nella medesima occasione, delle due guglie. Si vedano anche i link sulla statua di San Giorgio, sul Duomo e sulla Veneranda Fabbrica. #Chiesa #Cattedrale #Monumenti #Statua

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Roberto P

sent on August 22, 2023 (1:21) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Marcello VH

sent on August 22, 2023 (8:48) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

How did they straighten the sign? :-or

Marcello VH

sent on August 22, 2023 (9:16) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

How sad.... A statue that has withstood over 500 years of bad weather and then been damaged by a bombing. War is the worst of the ruins of humanity.

Roberto P

sent on August 22, 2023 (10:15) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I also wondered how they straightened it, between the late afternoon of day 5 and the morning of the 6th.
I think that someone from the Veneranda Fabbrica, who evidently does not suffer from vertigo and is very brave (by eye we will be 30 meters above the ground), climbed the spire and put the banner in place.

Thank you for the ride and have a nice day.

Marcello VH

sent on August 22, 2023 (11:38) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Looking better at the photos you can see an electrical cable headed to the base of the "spear", probably to discharge static and any lightning.
Perhaps it is relatively easy to rotate the rod from the base.
I have no doubt that an experienced technician can go all the way to the base of the statue. What I wonder is how to do it without damaging the delicate sculptures of the spire.
Unless they have appropriate hydraulic platforms... It would be interesting to deepen.
Thank you for the beautiful photos and for your constant educational effort.
You are the Alinari of the site.

Roberto P

sent on August 22, 2023 (12:36) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Yes, they have hydraulic platforms.
They have ones like this one, which I photographed on July 26 at 11:04, while it was being carried inside the Duomo through the Main Gate:

Others rent them, as in this case:
https://www.juzaphoto.com/galleria.php?t=4554870&l=it#27086790
Moreover, with an annual budget of 30 million,
https://www.juzaphoto.com/galleria.php?t=4601001&l=it#27357093
certainly does not lack the means.
They may have used one of these to straighten the banner.
Thanks again and hello.

Marcello VH

sent on August 22, 2023 (12:55) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

30 million... but look at that combination: it is precisely the equivalent of the amount that Marco Carelli left to the Duomo at his death as his contribution to the erection works.

Obviously before seeing your photo I didn't even know who Marco Carelli was :-D

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