Casale Monferrato, Milán, Piacenza: tres catedrales revisitadas

Luigi Leoni

doi:10.17979/aarc.2020.7.0.6291

Authors

Luigi Leoni Fondazione Frate Sole https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3840-7178

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2020.7.0.6291

Keywords:

religious architecture, Italy, cathedrals, Vatican II, presbyteral areas

Abstract

Vatican II expressed norms for the liturgical installation of presbyters, a guide for the design of new churches. For the adaptation of the presbyters of churches before the Council, the proposals for intervention, diversified in time and space, have found fulfillment where there was no need to preserve elements of high patrimonial value. Instead, it was arduous to work in historic buildings, with elements of high artistic value. It is useful to consider significant examples to verify the solutions adopted and to favor an analysis of the interventions.
The Italian cathedrals of Casale Monferrato, Milan and Piacenza are taken into consideration to highlight the criteria that led to a fruitful comparison between architects, artists and liturgists in order to adopt adequate solutions for the presbyteral areas. The research highlights in some contexts proposals for the enhancement of existing works of art, in other new sculptures in harmony with the architectural building.

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Author Biography

Luigi Leoni, Fondazione Frate Sole

He graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1969 and began his professional activity in the Studio Ricerche Arte Sacra of Pavia together P. Costantino Ruggeri with the design of numerous churches, chapels, stained glass and sculptures in Italy and abroad. In the eighties he made numerous trips to Burundi for the realization of religious and social spaces in the mission land. In 1986 he opened a second professional studio in Pavia together architect Chiara Rovati. In the nineties with P. Costantino Ruggeri realizes the Sanctuary of St Francis Xavier in Yamaguchi in Japan and the new Sanctuary of Divine Love in Rome. After 2000 he carried out an intense planning activity, collaborating with the Franciscan Fathers of the Holy Land and the Studium Biblicum of Jerusalem for the realization of projects in Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Syria. In 2007 he succeeds Father Costantino Ruggeri as President of the Frate Sole Foundation and opens a workshop to continue with the creation of artistic stained glass and sacred furnishings.

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