ASPETTI DEL DIBATTITO OTTOCENTESCO PER LA NUOVA FACCIATA DEL DUOMO
https://doi.org/10.4081/incontri.2007.43
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Riassunto. – Nel 1886 venne bandito un concorso internazionale per il progetto di una fronte del Duomo di Milano che diede luogo ad un vivace dibattito sui caratteri stilistici che essa avrebbe dovuto avere. Si contrappongono due gruppi: coloro che giudicano l’edificio opera gotica la cui architettura risente di influenze straniere e ritengono quindi che la nuova fronte dovrà ispirarsi alle grandi cattedrali francesi e tedesche, in particolare avere torri laterali; coloro che invece ritengono l’opera strutturalmente romanico lombardesca, con forme esteriori gotiche, e sostengono una fronte a capanna. Fra questi Luca Beltrami che interpreta e spiega le forme del Duomo utilizzando le teorie di Charles Darwin.
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Abstract. – In 1886 was announced the holding of an international competitive examination concerning the design of the front of the Cathedral in Milan, which aroused a lively debate over its stylistic characteristics. Two groups were opposed: those who considered the building a Gothic architecture featuring foreign influences, thus believing that the new front would have to be inspired by the great French and German cathedrals – in particular it would have to have side towers; those, on the contrary, who considered the building structurally a Lombardy Romanesque one with Gothic exterior forms advocated a hut-shaped front. Among these there was Luca Beltrami, who interpreted and explained the Cathedral shapes by employing Charles Darwin’s theories.