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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>its facade is now that of the "restoration" of 1870.
mmmm..... not entirely certainly.
the stonework and sculptures of the portal look o.k.
> The main portal is worth a closer look:
> http://tinyurl.com/cyvy5
again an example of (barely preserved) painting in the first (inner) archivolt
--angels or seraphim(?).
the stippling on the tympanum suggests that it, too, was originally plastered
or gessoed to hold painting.
i don't know what to do with those projecting lions up there --spolia from
their usual place at ground level, elevated in the 1870 reworking, perhaps.
> One of the flanking portals of the facade:
> http://www.bellavite.com/foto_album_milano/SanSimplicianoportone.cfm
with a magnificently ghastly 1870 mosiac
http://www.gusme.it/milano/churches/ext_6/20030830%20Milano%20-%20S.Simpliciano/10%20Mosaico%20portale%20sinistro.jpg
there's a matching one almost as ghastly on the right portal
http://www.gusme.it/milano/churches/ext_6/20030830%20Milano%20-%20S.Simpliciano/11%20Mosaico%20portale%20destro.jpg
i'm cool with a late 12th c. date for most of the portal decoration, here a
curious attempt at an historiated "capital frieze", one figure per "capital".
http://www.gusme.it/milano/churches/by_night/20021216%20Milano%20-%20San%20Simpliciano/06%20Particolare%20arco%20d'ingresso.jpg
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