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Built by the powerful Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, as his family’s burial chapel, the Carthusian monastery’s 15th-century church is a high point in the transition from Flamboyant Gothic to Renaissance.
In the purely visual sphere, style has been a national preoccupation from the Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to the grandiose cinematographic fantasies of Fellini and Visconti in the modern era.
Nostalgics take tea in the Grand Hôtel des Bains to recall the decadent 1900s, evoked there by Thomas Mann’s novella (and Luchino Visconti’s movie) Death in Venice.
In the right transept is the Visconti tomb, and a door leading to the lovely small cloister of russet terracotta, with a fine view of the church’s galleried octagonal tower.
Teams of Italian, French, Flemish, and German architects and sculptors contributed to this astonishing cathedral, begun in 1386 by the ruling Visconti family.