A PROVINCE TO BE EXPLORED - Visita Milano

Above, the Mother hen and
chicks and, below, Adaloaldo’s
Cross, masterpieces in the
Museo e Tesoro of the
Duomo in Monza
the conversion to Catholicism and the beginnings
of her dynasty.
The priceless collection, recently expanded and
rearranged in modern museum spaces, comprises
material of the highest level, making it the most important
body of early medieval art in the world: the
enigmatic Iron Crown, Theodolinda’s possessions
(ampullas from the Holy Land , terracotta medallion
of the Annunciation, Theodolinda’s Crown, Agilulf’s
Cross, Adaloald’s Cr oss, Theodolinda’s Evangeliary,
Mother hen with chicks), those of Berengario I (the
diptychs from late-antiquity known as those of the
Poet and Muse, of Stilicone and of David and Gregory,
the Reliquary of John the Baptist’s tooth and
Berengario I’s Cross). The sculpted plutei, tombs and
sarcophagus in the basilica and the adjacent tower
are the only architectural and sculptural remains of
the period.
The basilica was reconstructed by Matteo da
Campione, starting in 1300. Of that period it retains
the basic structure, the Gothic façade with a lunette
over the doorway, sculptural features (pulpits and the
Monza and its province
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