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Interior - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy
![]() One of four entrances/exits ... The Galleria connects two of Milan's most famous landmarks: The Duomo and the Teatro Alla Scala ![]() Note the Leonardo Monument in Piazza della Scala on the other side of the Galleria ![]() The first building in Milan to have electric lighting ![]() The structure consists of two glass-vaulted arcades intersecting in an octagon covering the street connecting The Duomo to Teatro Alla Scala. The street is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades. ![]() Glass and cast iron skylight roof ![]() Fourth story mural detail below: ![]() Detail - Fourth story mural ![]() Another mural ... Third story terminus figures ... Mural detailed below: ![]() Two termini detailed below: ![]() Terminus #1. Top: Third story egg-and-dart ... Acanthus leaves ... Dentils ... Leaf-and-dart ... Terminus ... Bottom: Greek frets ![]() Third story terminus ![]() Second story windows flanked by columns with paneled shaft featuring grotesques ... Window entablature detailed below: ![]() Second story cornice support at top: Leaf-and-dart ... Egg enclosed in acanthus leaves ... Egg-and-dart. Window surround entablature: cartouche decorated with Classical face flanked by horizontal ancones in the shape of scrolling acanthus leaves ... Leaf-and-dart ... Acanthus leaves ... Bead-and-reel ... Rosettes ... Paneled columns flanking window panes ![]() Bead-and-reel ![]() Second story Ionic pilaster with paneled shaft featuring grotesques ... Four details below: ![]() Second story Ionic pilaster detail #1 ... Above the capital: Acanthus leaves and bead-and-reel. Ionic capital: Fleuron ... Egg-and-dart ... Volutes ... Bed-and reel ... Scoop pattern ![]() Second story pilaster detail #2: Top: Burning torch ... Dolphins(?) ... Two grotesques ![]() Second story pilaster detail #3: Terminus ... Medusa(?) face in panel ![]() Second story pilaster detail #4: 3-headed Cerberus ![]() ![]() First story shop: Prada ... Three details below: ![]() Prada: Detail #1 ![]() Prada: Detail #2 ![]() Prada: Detail #3 ![]() Detail below: ![]() Armani detail ![]() Miscellany #1 of 4: Corinthian pilasters: Fleuron ... Volutes ... Acanthus leaves ![]() Miscellany #2 of 3: ![]() Miscellany #3 of 3: ... Beads at top ... Acanthus leaves ![]() The central marble octagonal below the octagonal skylight above ... Detail below: ![]() ![]() One of four mosaics portraying the coat of arms of the three capitals of the Kingdom of Italy: Turin, Florence, Rome and Milan ... Detail below: ![]() |