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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:  |