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Sant'Ambrogio Basilica
Sant'Ambrogio Basilica, Milan.
Sant’Ambrogio Basilica
basilica, Milan, Italy
Sant’Ambrogio Basilica, basilica in Milan, Italy, that is an outstanding example of Lombard Romanesque architecture. Although the church was originally built between 379 and 386, the earliest portions of the present structure date from the 9th and 10th centuries. The rebuilt vaulted nave and aisles date from 1128, the atrium from about 1050, and the narthex from 1095–96. Donato Bramante designed parts of the basilica and its chapel between 1492 and 1497. Some of his unfinished plans were executed in 1955.
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